Overview
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.
- | Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- | Publisher: Vintage
- | Publication Date: Dec 09, 1996
- | Number of Pages: 720 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0679729976
- | ISBN-13: 9780679729976
