The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

First edition
Author	Vladimir Nabokov
Translator	Dmitri Nabokov et al.
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	24 October 1995
Media type	Print
Pages	659
ISBN	9780394586151
OCLC	32780442
Dewey Decimal	813.54—dc20 95-23466
LC Class	PS3527.A15A6 1995

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (in some British editions, The Collected Stories) is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote, with the exception of "The Enchanter". The thirteen stories not previously published in English are translated by the author's son, Dmitri Nabokov. The collection was first published in America by Alfred A. Knopf in 1995.

The collection includes 65 stories (including one that was long considered lost, but discovered shortly before the latest edition of the volume).

List of stories

Originally written in Russian (1924–39)

1. "The Wood-Sprite" (1921)
2. "Russian Spoken Here" (1923)
3. "Sounds" (1923)
4. "Wingstroke"
5. "Gods"
6. "A Matter of Chance" (1924)
7. "The Seaport" (1924)
8. "Revenge" (1924)
9. "Beneficence" (1924)
10. "Details of a Sunset" (1924)
11. "The Thunderstorm" (1924)
12. "La Veneziana" (1924)
    

    The subject of Sebastiano del Piombo's Dorotea (1513) is the "Venetian" of Nabokov's "La Veneziana".
    
    The Kaiser-Friedrich Museum of Berlin houses the painting.
13. "Bachmann" (1924)
14. "The Dragon"
15. "Christmas"
16. "A Letter That Never Reached Russia"
17. "The Fight"
18. "The Return of Chorb" (1925)
19. "A Guide to Berlin"
20. "A Nursery Tale"
21. "Terror"
22. "Razor"
23. "The Passenger"
24. "The Doorbell"
25. "An Affair of Honor"
26. "The Christmas Story"
27. "The Potato Elf"
28. "The Aurelian" (1930)
29. "A Dashing Fellow"
30. "A Bad Day"
31. "The Visit to the Museum" (Russian: Посещение музея)
32. "A Busy Man"
33. "Terra Incognita"
34. "The Reunion"
35. "Lips to Lips" (ca. 1931)
36. "Orache"
37. "Music"
38. "Perfection"
39. "The Admiralty Spire"
40. "The Leonardo" (1933)
41. "In Memory of L. I. Shigaev"
42. "The Circle"
43. "A Russian Beauty"
44. "Breaking the News"
45. "Torpid Smoke"
46. "Recruiting"
47. "A Slice of Life"
48. "Spring in Fialta" (Russian: Весна в Фиальте) (1936)
49. "Cloud, Castle, Lake" (Russian: Облако, озеро, башня)
50. "Tyrants Destroyed"
51. "Lik"
52. "Vasiliy Shishkov"
53. "Ultima Thule"
54. "Solus Rex"

Originally written in French (1936)

1. "Mademoiselle O" (1936)

Originally written in English (1940–59)

1. "The Assistant Producer"
2. "That in Aleppo Once…"
3. "A Forgotten Poet"
4. "Time and Ebb"
5. "Conversation Piece, 1945"
6. "Signs and Symbols" (1946)
7. "First Love"
8. "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster"
9. "The Vane Sisters" (1951)
10. "Lance"

Editions

• Alfred Knopf, New York, 1995 (hardback) ISBN 0-394-58615-8
• Vintage, New York, 1996 (paperback) ISBN 0-679-72997-6
• Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1996 (hardback) ISBN 0-297-81722-1
• Penguin, London, 1997 (paperback) ISBN 0-14-118051-X
• Penguin, London, 1999 (paperback) ISBN 0-14-018975-0
• Penguin, London, 2001 (paperback) ISBN 0-14-118345-4

External links

• Interpretations of and excerpts from each story