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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

By Vladimir Nabokov

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1996
ISBN
0679729976, 9780679729976
LCC
PS3527.A15 A6 1995
Open Library ID
OL790975M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3270456 bytes)
Edition
1St Edition
Pages
393\393
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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.

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