First Lines: Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack between two eternities of darkness.

First Lines: Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

The elderly passenger sitting on the north-window side of that inexorably moving railway coach, next to an empty seat and facing two empty ones, was none other than Professor Timofey Pnin.

New Stuff: Vladimir Nabokov

I must admit so far I have missed out on reading any of his his books.

First Lines: Vladimir Nabokov - Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

'All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike,' says a great Russian writer in the beginning of a famous novel (Anna Arkadievitch Karenina, transfigured into English by R. G. Stonelower, Mount Tabor Ltd., 1880).

First Lines: Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.