The Enchanter

Copyright

First Vintage International Edition, July 1991

Copyright © 1986 by Dmitri Nabokov

Author’s Note One copyright © 1957 by Vladimir Nabokov

Author’s Note Two copyright © 1986 by Article 3C Trust under the Will of Vladimir Nabokov

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, in 1986.

The Enchanter is translated from Vladimir Nabokov’s unpublished work entitled Volshebnik. Copyrights in Volshebnik are held by Dmitri Nabokov as trustee of Article 3C Trust under the Will of Vladimir Nabokov. This edition published by arrangement with the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977.

[Volshebnik. English]

The enchanter / Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

p. cm. —(Vintage international)

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Putnam, c1986.

Translation of: Volshebnik.

eISBN: 978-0-307-78730-9

I. Title.

PG3476.N3V5513 1991

891.73′42—dc20 90-55704

Cover art by Megan Wilson and Duncan Hannah

Cover photograph by Alison Gootee

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