TY - BOOK AU - Nabokov,Vladimir Vladimirovich AU - Nabokov,Dmitri TI - The stories of Vladimir Nabokov SN - 0394586158 U1 - 891.73 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Manners and customs KW - Fiction KW - M{oelig}urs et coutumes KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - fast KW - novels KW - aat KW - Novels KW - lcgft KW - Romans KW - rvmgf N1 - Preface by Dmitri Nabokov; "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso; Inclludes bibliographical references; The wood-sprite --; Russian spoken here --; Sounds --; Wingstroke --; Gods --; A matter of chance --; The seaport --; Revenge --; Beneficence --; Details of a sunset --; The thunderstorm --; La veneziana --; Bachmann --; The dragon --; Christmas --; A letter that never reached Russia --; The fight --; The return of Chorb --; A guide to Berlin --; A nursery tale --; Terror --; Razor --; The passenger --; The doorbell --; An affair of honor --; The Christmas story --; The potato elf --; The aurelian --; A dashing fellow --; A bad day --; The visit to the museum --; A busy man --; Terra incognita --; The reunion --; Lips to lips --; Orache --; Music --; Perfection --; The admiralty spire --; The Leonardo --; In memory of L.I. Shigaev --; The circle --; A Russian beauty --; Breaking the news --; Torpid smoke --; Recruiting --; A slice of life --; Spring in Fialta --; Cloud, castle, lake --; Tyrants destroyed --; Lik --; Mademoiselle O --; Vasiliy Shishkov --; Ultima Thule --; Solus Rex --; The assistant producer --; That in Aleppo once --; A forgotten poet --; Time and ebb --; Conversation piece, 1945 --; Signs and symbols --; First love --; Scenes from the life of a double monster --; The Vane sisters --; Lance N2 - Sixty-five works by Vladimir Nabokov include his fairy tales, puzzles, vignettes, and melancholic stories written between the 1920s and 1950s, and feature such masterpieces as Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada ER -