In Volume 18 of the complete edition, which follows the volume "Lectures on Literature" edited by Fredson Bowers, Nabokov's legendary lectures on the works of Dickens, Austen, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust, and others can be read again in a new translation by Ludger Tolksdorf and Dieter E. Zimmer. "Those who read should lovingly pay attention to details. There is nothing wrong with the moonlight of generalization, provided it appears after the sunny little things of the book have been lovingly gathered." In this sense, as suggested by the master himself, Nabokov's lectures always deal with the speaking detail, the revealing smallness that broadens the perspective for the larger whole. And "nothing we have heard or read about these lectures," writes John Updike in his foreword, "has fully prepared us for how astonishing they are.".