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From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories.

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,... Read Full Overview

En un solo volumen, la edici?n definitiva de los cuentos de Vladimir Nabokov.Vladimir Nabokov, aunque fundamentalmente conocido por su obra maestra, la novela Lolita (1955), fue tambi?n un prol?fico autor de narrativa breve. La producci?n en este ?mbito se extiende a lo... Read Full Overview

The sixty-eight stories by Vladimir Nabokov included in this edition, prepared by his son Dmitri, allow us to enjoy the writer's immeasurable literary virtuosity: his thematic and disturbing ambiguities, his elegant handling of the language and the many places that left a mark... Read Full Overview

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of... Read Full Overview

Here, for the first time, are 65 stories--13 of which have never before been published in book form--by one of the 20th century's great prose stylists collected in one elegant volume. Written from the early 1920s to the mid-1950s, these stories will remind readers that they are... Read Full Overview

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of... Read Full Overview