1 option
The stories of Vladimir Nabokov.
LIBRA Special PS3527.A15 A6 2002
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 675 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 2002.
- 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.
- 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
- Easter rain.
- Notes:
- "Vintage International."
- "Copyright 1995, 2002 by Dmitri Nabokov."
- "Originally publihsed in the United States in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1995, in slightly different form."
- "This edition includes the newly discovered story 'Easter Rain'."
- Notes: p. 649-665.
- Publisher's advertisements: [3] p. at end.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0679729976
- 9780679729976
- OCLC:
- 52916601
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.