The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Desc: From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita Pale Fire and Ada or Ardor and so many others comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius his devious wit and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy. 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.