Letters — To Vera

: The edition includes nearly 200 pages of endnotes by editors Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd, identifying almost every person and butterfly Nabokov mentions, making it a "gold standard" for scholars. Purchase Information

: Reviewers from The Guardian and The Hudson Review note that while the letters often focus on "trifles" like weather and menus, they also reveal the seeds of Nabokov’s later masterpieces. You see him "scrounging up detail" for his fiction, from the smell of a hotel room to the specific blue of a lake. Letters to Vera

“My Dear Eyes”: Nabokov's Letters to Véra | The Hudson Review : The edition includes nearly 200 pages of