Nabokov's Quartet
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Nabokov's Quartet is a collection of four of Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...

's short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...

. The collection was first published by Phaedra, New York in 1966. It contains the following short stories:
  • "An Affair of Honor"
  • "Lik"
  • "The Vane Sisters
    The Vane Sisters
    "The Vane Sisters" is the penultimate short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in March 1951. It is famous for providing one of the most extreme examples of an unreliable narrator...

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  • "The Visit to the Museum"


The latter two were reprinted in 1968 in Nabokov's Congeries
Nabokov's Congeries
Nabokov's Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. Because Nabokov supervised its production less than a decade before he died, it is useful in attempting to identify which works Nabokov considered to be his best,...

, and "Lik" and "The Vane Sisters" are included in Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All but the last one were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1939 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and Menton, and later translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov. These...

(1975). All four stories were published again posthumously within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote, with the exception of "The Enchanter"...

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