''Nabokov's Dozen'' (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by
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. Bo ...
previously published in
America
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n magazines. (Nine of them also previously appeared in ''
Nine Stories''.)
All were later reprinted within ''
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
''The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov'' (in some British editions, ''The Collected Stories'') is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote, with the exception of "The Enchanter". In the current printing of this ...
''.
Two stories, ''First Love'' (as ''Colette'') and ''Mademoiselle O'' are also included in Nabokov's ''
Speak, Memory
''Speak, Memory'' is an autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book includes individual essays published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov's revised and extended edition appeared in 1966.
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''.
Contents
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Spring in Fialta "Spring in Fialta" is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1936, originally as ''Весна в Фиальте (Vesna v Fial'te)'' in Russian, during his exile in Berlin. The English translation was performed by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov. ''S ...
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*"A Forgotten Poet"
*"First Love"
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Signs and Symbols
"Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and first published, May 15, 1948 in ''The New Yorker'' and then in ''Nabokov's Dozen'' (1958: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York).
In ''The New Yorker'', the st ...
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*"The Assistant Producer"
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The Aurelian
"The Aurelian" is a short story first written in Russian as ''Pil'gram'' by Vladimir Nabokov during his exile in Berlin in 1930. After translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov it was published in English in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' in 1941. ''The ...
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*"Cloud, Castle, Lake"
*"Conversation Piece, 1945"
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That in Aleppo Once..."
*"Time and Ebb"
*"Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster"
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Mademoiselle O "Mademoiselle O" is a memoir by Vladimir Nabokov about his eccentric Swiss-French governess.
Publication history
It was first written and published in French in '' Mesures'' (vol. 2, no. 2, 1936) and subsequently in English (translated b ...
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*"Lance"
1958 short story collections
Short story collections by Vladimir Nabokov
Doubleday (publisher) books
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