Collected Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0141913827
- ISBN-13
- 9780141913827
- Series
- Collected Stories
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 816
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-06
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
Description
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastical fairy tales, intellectual games and enchanting glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. This landmark new collection brings together the best of the short stories of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of Lolita and Pale Fire. Part of a major new series of Vladimir Nabokov's work in Penguin Classics.
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