The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (in some British editions, The Collected Stories) is a posthumous collection of short stories by the Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov. Most of the stories collected in the book were translated from Russian into English by Nabokov, his wife, Vera Nabokov, and their son, Dmitri Nabokov. A further sixteen stories not previously published in English were translated by Vera and later Dmitri after Nabokov's death. The book collects every known short story written by Nabokov with the exception of "The Enchanter", translated by Dmitri published as a stand-alone novella in 1987, and "The Man Stopped," which was discovered and translated into English in 2015, after Dmitri's death.[1] The collection was first published in America by Alfred A. Knopf in 1995.

In 1958, Nabokov published the story collection Nabokov's Dozen, which included thirteen short stories. Towards the end of his life, he collected the rest of his short fiction in three similar collections: A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973), Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1975), and Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976). Nabokov had planned to publish a fifth collection of thirteen stories, but he died before he could translate them. After his death, his wife and son began translating the remaining thirteen, and all sixty-five stories were eventually collected in 1995.[2] The stories are ordered in as close to chronological order as the Nabokov family was able to piece together.[2]

Three additional stories were discovered and translated after the first printing of this collection. They were incorporated in later printings of the U.S. paperback edition and in later printings of the hardback and paperback British editions of this work.[3] The eighth part of the story "The Potato Elf" was accidentally omitted from the first five printings of the hardcover edition of this book.

• 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

1. ^ Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich. "The Man Stopped: A Story". Translated by Gennady Barabtarlo. Harper’s Magazine. March 2015 issue.
2. ^ a b Nabokov, Vladimir (1995). The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. United States: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780394586151.
3. ^ Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography, Revised