Made to Order at Juniper Custom in Boulder, Colorado

To read Nabokov is to be dazzled by wordplay, insight and plots that unfold with ever-greater intricacy. He was also a devoted lepidopterist who spent a lifetime collecting and studying blue butterflies, and the hours he spent among them shaped some of his most beautiful passages. Our custom jackets pay tribute to that passion. This set gathers two of his great novels and his celebrated memoir. It is a set for the lover of language, the student of twentieth-century literature, and anyone enchanted by a perfect sentence.

The Collection

Books included, published by Everyman's Library:

1. Lolita
2. Pale Fire
3. Speak, Memory

Each set is made entirely to order. Please allow two weeks for production.

Make It Your Own

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Please note that customized orders are non-refundable and non-returnable.

FAQs

Why butterflies?
Nabokov was a serious lepidopterist whose research on the blue butterflies known as Polyommatus Blues was later vindicated by scientists. His passion runs through his prose.

What is Speak, Memory?
His luminous autobiography, recalling a childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia and a life in exile.

Where should a new reader begin?
With Pale Fire, a novel in the form of a poem and its eccentric commentary, or Speak, Memory for his most personal writing.