The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Nabokov, Vladimir

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995 0297817221. Hardback First edition. First printing. Fine/Fine except for one slight repaired nick to the DW. No annotations or inscriptions. 688 pages. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy. .