And so, the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: The Original of Laura, Nabokov’s final piece of writing, his uncompleted novel. Before he died in 1977 he told his wife that if he couldn’t finish it he wanted her to destroy it. She wasn’t able to before she died in 1991. Nor was his son, Dmitri who finally, in 2008 after much thought, announced that he would publish it. It was issued simultaneously in the U.S. by Knopf and in Britain by Penguin in November 2009 to much fanfare. But the novel’s semi-formed state left many critics bewildered. They gave the book generally poor reviews. It did not appear in the 1986 bibliography.