- Manners and customs, Fiction, Translations into English, Russian Short stories
Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume.
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Prestige, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov, Arthur Morey
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 666
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Penguin Books, Alfred A. Knopf
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679729976
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков; 23 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov's *Lolita* (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked at #4 in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. *Pale Fire* (1962) w
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