A five-volume collection of works of English-language fiction by Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) is being undertaken in Russia for the first time. This volume includes works created in the 1940s . - the first decade of Nabokov's work as an American writer - the novels "The True Life of Sebastian Knight" (1941), "Under the Sign of Illegal Births" (1947), the novel-essay "Nikolai Gogol" (1944), as well as the preface to the translation of "The Hero of Our Time" and the essay "Pushkin, or Truth and Probability" . The publication is accompanied by an introductory article and comments, in the text of previously published translations, banknotes were restored . Nabokov V. In. Collection of works in 5 volumes: Per. with English. / Composition C. B. Illina and A. K. Kononova; Foreword and comments by prof. A. M. Luxembourg . — SPb. : "Symposium", 2004. — 608 pages . (T. 1). Circulation 3000 copies. Format 84108/32. — ISBN 5-89091-016-7(t. 1) ISBN 5-89091-014-0 .