''Nabokov's Dozen'' is a 1958 collection of 13 short stories 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 ...
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 thi ...
''.
Two stories, ''First Love'' (as ''Colette'') and ''Mademoiselle O'' are also included in Nabokov's ''
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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*"Lance"
References
External links
1958 reviewby ''
Kirkus Reviews
''Kirkus Reviews'' is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media, is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction, no ...
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1958 short story collections
Short story collections by Vladimir Nabokov
Doubleday (publisher) books
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