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Details Of A Sunset And Other Stories
''Details of a Sunset and Other Stories'' is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1935 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and Riga and published individually in the émigré press at that time later to be translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov. The collection was published with a foreword by the author in 1976. Stories included * "Details of a Sunset" * "A Bad Day" * "Orache (story), Orache" * "The Return of Chorb" * "The Passenger (story), The Passenger" * "A Letter that Never Reached Russia" * "A Guide to Berlin (short story), A Guide to Berlin" * "The Doorbell" * "The Thunderstorm" * "The Reunion (story), The Reunion" * "A Slice of Life (story), A Slice of Life" * "Christmas (story), Christmas" * "A Busy Man" {{DEFAULTSORT:Details of a Sunset and Other Stories Short story collections by Vladimir Nabokov 1976 short story collections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Passenger (story)
A passenger is a passive traveler in a vehicle. Passenger(s) or The Passenger(s) may also refer to: Literature * ''Passenger'' (Posmysz novel), by Zofia Posmysz, 1962, basis for the 1963 film and the 1968 opera * Passenger (Keneally novel), a 1979 novel by Thomas Keneally * "Passengers" (short story), by Robert Silverberg, 1968 * "The Passenger" (short story), by Vladimir Nabokov, 1927 * ''The Passenger'' (Boschwitz novel), by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, 1938 * ''The Passenger'' (McCarthy novel), by Cormac McCarthy, 2022 * ''The Passenger'', a 2006 novel by Chris Petit * "The Passenger", a 2012 horror story by Arinn Dembo Film and television Film * ''The Passenger'' (1928 film), a French silent film by Jacques de Baroncelli * ''The Passenger'' (1949 film), a French comedy by Jacques Daroy * ''Passenger'' (1963 film), a Polish drama by Andrzej Munk * ''The Passenger'' (1975 film), a drama by Michelangelo Antonioni * ''The Passengers'' (1977 film), a French film by Serge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Busy Man
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas (story)
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many countries, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season organized around it. The traditional Christmas narrative recounted in the New Testament, known as the Nativity of Jesus, says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in accordance with messianic prophecies. When Joseph and Mary arrived in the city, the inn had no room and so they were offered a stable where the Christ Child was soon born, with angels proclaiming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Slice Of Life (story)
A Slice of Life may refer to: * Slice of life, a genre of art depicting mundane experiences * ''A Slice of Life'' (1914 film), an American silent film * ''A Slice of Life'' (1954 film), an Italian-French film * "Slice of Life" (song), by Bauhaus * ''A Slice of Life'' (1983 film), an Australian comedy film * "A Slice of Life" (short story), by P. G. Wodehouse * "Slice of Life" (''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic''), a television episode * " The Slice of Life", an episode of ''Roseanne'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reunion (story)
Reunion may refer to: * Class reunion * Family reunion Reunion, Réunion, Re-union, Reunions or The Reunion may also refer to: Places * Réunion, a French overseas department and island in the Indian Ocean * Reunion, Commerce City, Colorado, US * Reunion, Florida, a resort neighborhood near Orlando, Florida, US * Holy Empire of Reunion, a Brazilian micronation that claims the French island as its territory * Reunion District, Dallas, US Architecture * Reunion Arena, an indoor arena in Dallas, Texas, US * Reunion Tower, a building in Dallas, Texas, US Arts and entertainment Books * ''Reunion'' (Uhlman novel), a 1971 German language novel by Fred Uhlman * ''Reunion'' (Foster novel), a 2001 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster * ''Reunion'' (Cabot novel), a 2005 young-adult novel by Meg Cabot * "Reunion" (short story), a 1962 short story by John Cheever * ''Reunion'' (play), a play by David Mamet * ''Reunion'' (''Buffy'' comic), a 2002 comic * ''The Reunion'' (''An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doorbell
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Guide To Berlin (short Story)
"A Guide to Berlin" (original title "Путеводитель по Берлину") is a 1925 short story by Vladimir Nabokov. It was later translated by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov, into English and included in the collection ''Details of a Sunset and Other Stories'' (1976). Plot summary In the story the narrator recounts to a friend his visit to the Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ... zoo. In the short sections--"The Pipes," "The Streetcar," "Work," "Eden," and "The Pub"—he describes everyday aspects of life in the city in vivid, typically Nabokovian, detail. In "The Streetcar," he adumbrates his vision of the purpose of "literary creation": "To portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find in the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Letter That Never Reached Russia
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return Of Chorb
"The Return of Chorb" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1925. In 1929 it became part of a collection of fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems also called ''The Return of Chorb'' (Russian: ''Vozvrashchenie Chorba'') in Russian by "V. Sirin". English translation After its publication in the Russian emigre press the story was translated into English by Gleb Struve as ''The Return of Tchorb'' and published in the Paris magazine ''This Quarter'' in 1932. More than four decades later Nabokov retranslated the story, as he found Struve's translation "not accurate enough and far removed from my present use of English", and incorporated the story in the collection ''Details of a Sunset and Other Stories ''Details of a Sunset and Other Stories'' is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1935 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and Riga and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Books
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Orache (story)
''Atriplex'' () is a plant genus of about 250 species, known by the common names of saltbush and orache (; also spelled orach). It belongs to the subfamily Chenopodioideae of the family Amaranthaceae ''s.l.''. The genus is quite variable and widely distributed. It includes many desert and seashore plants and halophytes, as well as plants of moist environments. The generic name originated in Latin and was applied by Pliny the Elder to the edible oraches. The name saltbush derives from the fact that the plants retain salt in their leaves; they are able to grow in areas affected by soil salination. Description Species of plants in genus ''Atriplex'' are annual or perennial herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs. The plants are often covered with bladderlike hairs, that later collapse and form a silvery, scurfy or mealy surface, rarely with elongate trichomes. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches, rarely in opposite pairs, either sessile or on a petiole, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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