The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

• Book ID: 126819293
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: Russian
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Standards
• ISBN: 0307788091

✦ Synopsis

THE STORIES OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV

What startling beauty of phrase, twists of thought, depths of sorrow and bursts of wit!
... It was Nabokov's gift to bring Paradise wherever he alighted."
—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review

From Vladimir Nabokov, the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and the 1950s, these sixty-six tales—twelve 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 an intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.
"Some of the most nape-tingling prose and devilish inventions in twentieth-century letters.... An authentic literary event."
—Time

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