Duncan White draws on previously unpublished and neglected material to tell the story of Nabokov the professional writer; to explore how he balanced his late modernist aesthetics with the demands of a booming American literary marketplace; and to reconceptualise the way we think about one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. White's study offers a refreshing new perspective on Nabokov's life and work. Nabokov and his Books succeeds in shifting the paradigm and invites us to enjoy the 'old books' precisely as books - material objects that trigger an experience of rereading.