Research Catalog

Title

The stories of Vladimir Nabokov.

Author

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

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Publisher description

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Additional Authors

Nabokov, Dmitri

Description

xiv, 659 pages; 26 cm

Summary

• Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, these stories reveal the fascinating progress of Nabokov's early development as they remind us that we are in the presence of a magnificent original, a genuine master. Edited by his son and translator, Dmitri Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov is a literary event and a celebration of his art.
• Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume.
• Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, these stories reveal the fascinating progress of Nabokov's early development as they remind us that we are in the presence of a magnificent original, a genuine master. Edited by his son and translator, Dmitri Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov is a literary event and a celebration of his art.

Uniform Title

Short stories

Alternative Title

Short stories

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Manners and customs > Fiction
• Short stories, Russian > 20th century
• Mœurs et coutumes > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Nouvelles russes > 20e siècle
• Short stories, Russian
• Manners and customs
• Fiction

Genre/Form

• Russian fiction
• short stories.
• Short stories
• Fiction.
• Short stories.
• Publishers' advertisements.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Galliard.
• Nouvelles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The wood-sprite -- Russian spoken here -- Sounds -- Wingstroke -- Gods -- A matter of chance -- The seaport -- Revenge -- Beneficence -- Details of a sunset -- The thunderstorm -- La veneziana -- Bachmann -- The dragon -- Christmas -- A letter that never reached Russia -- The fight -- The return of Chorb -- A guide to Berlin -- A nursery tale -- Terror -- Razor -- The passenger -- The doorbell -- An affair of honor -- The Christmas story -- The potato elf -- The aurelian -- A dashing fellow -- A bad day -- The visit to the museum -- A busy man -- Terra incognita -- The reunion -- Lips to lips -- Orache -- Music -- Perfection -- The admiralty spire -- The Leonardo -- In memory of L.I. Shigaev -- The circle -- A Russian beauty -- Breaking the news -- Torpid smoke -- Recruiting -- A slice of life -- Spring in Fialta -- Cloud, castle, lake -- Tyrants destroyed -- Lik -- Mademoiselle O -- Vasiliy Shishkov -- Ultima Thule -- Solus Rex -- The assistant producer -- That in aleppo once -- A forgotten poet -- Time and ebb -- Conversation piece, 1945 -- Signs and symbols -- First love -- Scenes from the life of a double monster -- The Vane sisters -- Lance.

ISBN

• 0679729976
• 9780679729976
• 0394586158
• 9780394586151

LCCN

95023466

OCLC

• ocm32780442
• 32780442

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries