''Nabokov's Congeries'' was a collection of work by

Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Rus ...

published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as ''The Portable Nabokov''. It was edited by

Page Stegner Stuart Page Stegner (January 31, 1937, in Salt Lake City, Utah, – December 14, 2017, in Reno, Nevada) was a novelist, essayist, and historian who wrote extensively about the American West. He was the son of novelist and historian Wallace Stegner. ...

. Because Nabokov supervised its production less than a decade before he died, it is useful in attempting to identify which works Nabokov considered to be his best, especially among his short stories. The text of "The Assistant Producer" contained in ''Nabokov's Congeries'' omits the story's final two paragraphs, which had apparently been inadvertently dropped from all English-language editions of the story subsequent to the first. This was explained by the author's son in his introduction to the posthumously published collection

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 thi ...

(1995), in which the story appears with its final paragraphs restored.

* Editor's Introduction by Page Stegner * A Bibliographical Note * Vladimir Nabokov: A Chronology The Artist Himself * From ''

Speak, Memory ''Speak, Memory'' is a 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. Scope The book is dedi ...

: An Autobiography Revisited'' Eleven Stories * "

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" * "

Cloud, Castle, Lake ''Cloud, Castle, Lake'' is a short story anthology by Vladimir Nabokov. It contains five stories: "The Admiralty Spire," "Razor," "A Russian Beauty," "Cloud, Castle, Lake," and "Signs and Symbols "Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimi ...

" (Облако, озеро, башня) * " The Visit to the Museum" (Посещение музея) * "

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 ...

" (Весна в Фиальте) * " That in Aleppo Once..." * "

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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 ...

" * "First Love" * "

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" * "

The Vane Sisters "The Vane Sisters" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in March 1951. It is famous for providing one of the most extreme examples of an unreliable narrator. It was first published in the Winter 1958 issue of ''The Hudson Review'' and the ...

" * " Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" Essays and Criticism * On a Book Entitled ''

Lolita ''Lolita'' is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession ...

'' * Introduction to ''

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'' * Foreword to Mihail Lermontov's ''

A Hero of Our Time ''A Hero of Our Time'' ( rus, Герой нашего времени, links=1, r=Gerój nášego vrémeni, p=ɡʲɪˈroj ˈnaʂɨvə ˈvrʲemʲɪnʲɪ) is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841. It ...

'' * From ''

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

'': The Government Specter * From the Commentary to ''

Eugene Onegin ''Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse'' (, Reforms of Russian orthography, pre-reform Russian: Евгеній Онѣгинъ, романъ въ стихахъ, ) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. ''Onegin'' is considered a classic of ...

'': On Romanticism; The Art of the Duel * From ''

'': A Sample Translation from Chapter One, Stanzas I-VIII * Reply to My Critics A Novel and Three Excerpts * ''

Pnin Pnin is a Russian surname produced by truncation of the surname Repnin.Boris Unbegaun Boris Ottokar Unbegaun () (1898, Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Rus ...

'' complete * From '' Despair'' * From ''

Invitation to a Beheading ''Invitation to a Beheading'' () is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov. It was originally published in Russian from 1935 to 1936 as a serial in '' Sovremennye zapiski'', a Russian émigré magazine. In 1938, the work was publishe ...

'' * From '' The Gift'' Poems * The Refrigerator Awakes * A Literary Dinner * A Discovery * An Evening of Russian Poetry * Restoration * Lines Written in Oregon * Ode to a Model * On Translating ''

'' * Rain * The Ballad of Longwood Glen

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