Vladimir E. Alexandrov is Professor of Russian Literature and Chairman of the Department of Slavic Language and Literature at Yale University.

Chapter 1 Ada, Brian Boyd; Chapter 2 Ania v Strane Chudes, Julian W. Connolly; Chapter 3 Bend Sinister, John Burt FosterJr.; Chapter 4 Bilingualism, Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour; Chapter 5 Chess and Chess Problems, Janet Gezari; Chapter 6 Correspondence, John M. Kopper; Chapter 7 Critical Reception, Stephen Jan Parker; Chapter 8 The Defense, Vladimir E. Alexandrov; Chapter 9 Despair, Sergej Davydov; Chapter 10 English Short Stories, Gennady Barabtarlo; Chapter 11 Eugene Onegin, Alexander Dolinin; Chapter 12 The Eye, D. Barton Johnson; Chapter 13 The Gift, Alexander Dolinin; Chapter 14 Glory, Pekka Tammi; Chapter 15 A Hero of Our Time, William Mills ToddIII; Chapter 16 Humor, Clarence Brown; Chapter 17 Invitation to a Beheading, Sergej Davydov; Chapter 18 King, Queen, Knave, Julian W. Connolly; Chapter 19 Laughter in the Dark, Julian W. Connolly; Chapter 20 Lectures on Don Quixote, Harry Levin; Chapter 21 Lectures on Literature, Joseph Frank; Chapter 22 Lectures on Russian Literature, Hugh McLean; Chapter 23 Lepidoptera Studies, Charles Lee Remington; Chapter 24 Library, Stephen Jan Parker; Chapter 25 Literary Return to Russia, Aleksei Zverev, Anna K. Primrose; Chapter 26 Lolita, Ellen Pifer; Chapter 27 Lolita in Russian, Alexander Dolinin; Chapter 28 Look at the Harlequins!, D. Barton Johnson; Chapter 29 Manuscripts, Brian Boyd; Chapter 30 Mary, Dieter E. Zimmer; Chapter 31 Nabokov and Bely, Vladimir E. Alexandrov; Chapter 32 Nabokov and Bergson, Leona Toker; Chapter 33 Nabokov and Blok, David M. Bethea; Chapter 34 Nabokov and Chateaubriand, Annapaola Cancogni; Chapter 35 Nabokov and Chekhov, Simon Karlinsky; Chapter 36 Nabokov and Dostoevsky, Georges Nivat; Chapter 37 Nabokov and Evreinov, Vladimir E. Alexandrov; Chapter 38 Nabokov and Flaubert, Maurice Couturier; Chapter 39 Nabokov and Freud, Jenefer Shute; Chapter 40 Nabokov and Gogol, Donald Fanger; Chapter 41 Nabokov and Gumilev, Vladimir E. Alexandrov; Chapter 42 Nabokov and Joyce, Julian Moynahan; Chapter 43 Nabokov and Kafka, John Burt FosterJr.; Chapter 44 Nabokov and Khodasevich, David M. Bethea; Chapter 45 Nabokov and Poe, Dale E. Peterson; Chapter 46 Nabokov and Proust, John Burt FosterJr.; Chapter 47 Nabokov and Pushkin, Sergej Davydov; Chapter 48 Nabokov and Shakespeare: The English Works, Herbert Grabes; Chapter 49 Nabokov and Shakespeare: The Russian Works, Samuel Schuman; Chapter 50 Nabokov and Tolstoy, John Burt FosterJr.; Chapter 51 Nabokov and some Turn-of-the-Century English Writers, J.B. Sisson; Chapter 52 Nabokov, Updike, and American Literature, Aleksei Zverev, Anna K. Primrose; Chapter 53 Nabokov and Uspensky, Vladimir E. Alexandrov; Chapter 54 Nature and Artifice, Vladimir E. Alexandrov; Chapter 55 Nikolka Persik, Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour; Chapter 56 Notes on Prosody, G.S. Smith; Chapter 57 "The Otherworld", Vladimir E. Alexandrov; Chapter 58 Pale Fire, Pekka Tammi; Chapter 59 Plays, Galya Diment; Chapter 60 Pnin, Gennady Barabtarlo; Chapter 61 Poetry, Barry P. Scherr; Chapter 62 Politics, Charles Nicol; Chapter 63 "Poshlost'", Sergej Davydov; Chapter 64 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, J.B. Sisson; Chapter 65 Russian Short Stories, Nataliia Tolstaia, Mikhail Meilakh, Maxim D. Shrayer; Chapter 66 The Song of Igor's Campaign, Harvey Goldblatt; Chapter 67 Speak, Memory, Georges Nivat; Chapter 68 Strong Opinions, Galya Diment; Chapter 69 Style, David M. Bethea; Chapter 70 Teaching, Charles Nicol; Chapter 71 Three Russian Poets, Galya Diment; Chapter 72 Translation and Self-Translation, Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour; Chapter 73 Transparent Things, D. Barton Johnson; Chapter 74 Uncollected Critical Writings, Galya Diment;