Book summaryThese 65 stories, drawn from Nabokov's four earlier collections and including eleven never before translated into English, display the astonishing range of his technical and formal inventiveness. The stories span the years 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. Edited by his son and translator, Dmitri Nabokov. Media reviews"In the pages of this new book, Nabokov seems less aloof than elsewhere: his talent for ecstasy becomes apprehensive, caught up in blue-rimmed, insomniac worries and in glimpses of a capricious afterlife. These stories are incantations, and they summon the strangest things." |
THE STORIES OF VLADIMIR NABOKOVby Nabokov, VladimirFirst edition
Book desription: New York: Knopf, 1995. First edition Near Fine in Wraps An uncorrected proof copy in light tan wraps. Sixty-five stories, thirteen published for the first time in English. This copy has a lightly creased spine (very near fine for a 650 page proof), and a faint crease on the front cover, but very clean and tight.
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