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Language
  
English

Pages
  
268

Dewey Decimal
  
891.7/3/42

Originally published
  
1973

Page count
  
268

OCLC
  
447413

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Publication date
  
1973

ISBN
  
0-07-045735-2

LC Class
  
PZ3.N121 Ru PG3476.N3

Author
  
Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher
  
McGraw-Hill Education

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Translators
  
Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Simon Karlinsky

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Vladimir Nabokov books, Other books

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1923 and 1940 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and other places in western Europe. They appeared individually in the Russian émigré press. Subsequently, they were translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov but for the first story which was translated by Simon Karlinsky. The collection was published in 1973.

Stories included

  • "A Russian Beauty"
  • "The Leonardo"
  • "Torpid Smoke"
  • "Breaking the News"
  • "Lips to Lips"
  • "A Visit to the Museum"
  • "An Affair of Honor"
  • "Terra Incognita"
  • "A dashing Fellow"
  • "Ultima Thule"
  • "Solus Rex"
  • "The Potato Elf"
  • "The Circle"
  • References

    A Russian Beauty and Other Stories Wikipedia