The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (in some British editions, The Collected Stories) is a posthumous collection of every known short story that 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...

 ever wrote, with the exception of "The Enchanter

The Enchanter

The Enchanter is a novella written by Vladimir Nabokov in Paris in 1939. As Волшебник it was his last work of fiction written in Russian. Nabokov never published it during his lifetime. After his death, his son Dmitri translated the novella into English in 1986 and it was published the following...

". The thirteen stories not previously published in English are translated by the author's son, Dmitri Nabokov

Dmitri Nabokov

Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov is an American opera singer and translator. He is the only child of writer Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera Nabokov, and is currently executor of his father's literary estate.-Background:...

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The collection includes 65 stories (including one that was long considered lost, but discovered shortly before the latest edition of the volume).

Originally written in Russian (1924–1939)

• The Wood-Sprite
• Russian Spoken Here
• Sounds
• Wingstroke
• Gods
• A Matter of Chance
  A Matter of Chance
  A Matter of Chance is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was rejected by the newspaper Rul and first published by the emigre magazine Segodnya in Riga...
  
  
• The Seaport
• Revenge
• Beneficence
• Details of a Sunset
  Details of a Sunset
  Details of a Sunset is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924....
  
  
• The Thunderstorm
• La Veneziana

• Bachmann
  Bachmann (short story)
  "Bachmann" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov under his nom-de-plume V. Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was first published in Rul, a Russian émigré paper founded by his father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, and later included in a number of short story collections: Vozvrashchenie...
  
  
• The Dragon
• Christmas
• A Letter That Never Reached Russia
• The Fight
• The Return of Chorb
  The Return of Chorb
  The Return of Chorb is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1925. In 1929 it became part of a collection of fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems also called Vozvrashchenie Chorba in Russian by "V...
  
  
• A Guide to Berlin
  A Guide to Berlin
  "A Guide to Berlin" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1925. It was later translated by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov, into English and included in the collection Details of a Sunset and Other Stories .-Plot summary:...
  
  
• A Nursery Tale
  A Nursery Tale
  A Nursery Tale is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov first published in the expatriate Russian newspaper Rul on 27 and 29 June 1926 and in the book form in The Return of Chorb in 1930...
  
  
• Terror
• Razor
  Razor (short story)
  "Razor" is a short story by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. It was first published in the expatriate Russian literary magazine Rul in 1926, but a French translation did not appear until 1991, and an English one not until 1995.- Plot summary :Ivanov, an exiled Russian and former military...
  
  
• The Passenger
• The Doorbell
• An Affair of Honor
• The Christmas Story
• The Potato Elf
  The Potato Elf
  "The Potato Elf" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov in Berlin where it was first published in the émigré daily Rul in 1929 and then included in 1929 collection Vozvrashchenie Chorba...
  
  
• The Aurelian
  The Aurelian
  "The Aurelian" is a short story first written in Russian as Pil'gram by Vladimir Nabokov during his exile in Berlin in 1930. After translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov it was published in English in the Atlantic Monthly in 1941...
  
  
• A Dashing Fellow
• A Bad Day
• The Visit to the Museum (Посещение музея)
• A Busy Man
• Terra Incognita
  Terra Incognita (short story)
  "Terra Incognita" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov that was first published in the émigré journal Posledniya Novosti in Paris in 1931...
  
  
• The Reunion
• Lips to Lips
  Lips to Lips
  "Lips to Lips" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov in Berlin in or about 1931. It was first published in 1956 as part of the collection Vesna v Fialte...
  
  
• Orache
• Music
• Perfection
• The Admiralty Spire
• The Leonardo
  The Leonardo
  "The Leonardo" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov in Berlin in the summer of 1933. It was first published as Korolyyok in Posledniya Novosti in Paris the same year, and in 1956 as part of the collection Vesna v Fialte...
  
  
• In Memory of L. I. Shigaev
• The Circle
• A Russian Beauty
• Breaking the News
• Torpid Smoke
• Recruiting
• A Slice of Life
  A Slice of Life (short story)
  "A Slice of Life" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in 1926 in Strand Magazine, and appeared almost simultaneously in Liberty in the United States. It also appears in the collection Meet Mr. Mulliner...
  
  
• Spring in Fialta
  Spring in Fialta
  Spring in Fialta is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1936, originally as Весна в Фиальте in Russian, during his exile in Berlin. The English translation was performed by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov...
  
   (Весна в Фиальте)
• Cloud, Castle, Lake
  Cloud, Castle, Lake
  Cloud, Castle, Lake is a short story anthology by Vladimir Nabokov. It features five stories: "The Admiralty Spire," "Razor," "A Russian Beauty," "Cloud, Castle, Lake," and "Signs and Symbols."...
  
   (Облако, озеро, башня)
• Tyrants Destroyed
• Lik
• Vasiliy Shishkov
• Ultima Thule
• Solus Rex

Originally written in English (1940 – 1959)

• The assistant producer
• That in Aleppo once...
• A forgotten poet
• Time and Ebb
• Conversation piece, 1945
• Signs and Symbols
  Signs and Symbols
  "Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and first published, May 15, 1948 in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen ....
  
   (1946)
• First Love
  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,...
  
  
• Scenes from the life of a double monster
• 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...
  
  
• Lance

Editions

• Alfred Knopf, New York, 1995 (hardback) ISBN 0-394-58615-8
• Vintage, New York, 1996 (paperback) ISBN 0-679-72997-6
• Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1996 (hardback) ISBN 0-297-81722-1
• Penguin, London, 1997 (paperback) ISBN 0-14-118051-X
• Penguin, London, 1999 (paperback) ISBN 0-14-018975-0
• Penguin, London, 2001 (paperback) ISBN 0-14-118345-4

External links

• Interpretations of and excerpts from each story