''The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov'' (in some British editions, ''The Collected Stories'') is a posthumous collection of every known short story that

Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (russian: link=no, Владимир Владимирович Набоков ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Bor ...

ever wrote, with the exception of "

The Enchanter ''The Enchanter'' is a novella written by Vladimir Nabokov in Paris in 1939. As ''Волшебник (Volshebnik)'' it was his last work of fiction written in Russian. Nabokov never published it during his lifetime. After his death, his son D ...

". In the current printing of this work, sixteen stories not previously published in English are translated by the author's son,

Dmitri Nabokov Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (russian: Дми́трий Влади́мирович Набо́ков; May 10, 1934February 22, 2012) was an American opera singer and translator. Born in Berlin, he was the only child of Russian parents: author Vlad ...

. The collection was first published in America by

Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. () is an American publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915. Blanche and Alfred traveled abroad regularly and were known for publishing European, Asian, and Latin American writers in ...

in 1995. As initially published, the collection included 65 stories. Nabokov's first collection of short stories,

Nabokov's Dozen ''Nabokov's Dozen'' (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. (Nine of them also previously appeared in '' Nine Stories''.) All were later reprinted within ''The Stories of Vladimir N ...

, contained thirteen total stories, which made for the structure of all of his subsequent collections, four in his lifetime. In the introduction to the collection, Dmitri Nabokov explains that the newly translated stories were to be his father's final collection. The stories are presented in as close to chronological order as they were able to piece together. Three additional stories were discovered and translated after the first printing of this collection. They were incorporated in later printings of the U.S. paperback edition and in later printings of the hardback and paperback British editions of this work.Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography, Revised
/ref> It's also worth noting that the eighth part of the story "The Potato Elf" was accidentally omitted from the first five printings of the hardcover edition of this book.

List of stories

Editions

*Alfred Knopf, New York, 1995 (hardback) *Vintage, New York, 1996 (paperback) *Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1996 (hardback) *Penguin, London, 1997 (paperback) *Penguin, London, 1999 (paperback) *Penguin, London, 2001 (paperback)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stories Of Vladimir Nabokov, The 1995 short story collections Short story collections by Vladimir Nabokov Books published posthumously Alfred A. Knopf books