A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
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| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
|---|---|
| Translator | Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov; Simon Karlinsky |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill |
Publication date | 1973 |
| Pages | 268 |
| ISBN | 0-07-045735-2 |
| OCLC | 447413 |
| 891.7/3/42 | |
| LC Class | PZ3.N121 Ru PG3476.N3 |
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov. The short stories in this collection were originally written in Russian between 1927 and 1940 under the pseudonym Vladimir Sirin.[1][2] Before being collated into short story collections, some were published by various European Russian émigré newspapers and magazines.[3]
This collection was published in English in 1973 by McGraw-Hill in New York, it was translated by Nabokov himself and his son Dmitri Nabokov as well as who collaborated with the author to translate the first short story "".[4]
Stories included[]
- "" written in 1934
- "The Leonardo" written in 1933
- "" written in 1935
- "" written in 1935
- "Lips to Lips" written in 1932
- "" written in 1931
- "" written in 1927
- "Terra Incognita" written in 1931
- "" written in 1930
- "" written in 1940
- "" written in 1940
- "The Potato Elf" written in 1929
- "" written in 1934
References[]
- ^ Boyd, Brian (1993). Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691024707.
- ^ Blanche, H. Gelfant (2004). The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Columbia University Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-0231110990.
- ^ Alexandrov, Vladimir E. (1995). The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. Routledge. ISBN 978-0815303541.
- ^ Nabokov, Vladimir (2012). Collected Stories. Penguin Classics. pp. 1058–1059, 1060. ISBN 978-0-141-19716-6.
Categories:
- Short story collections by Vladimir Nabokov
- 1973 short story collections