A major publishing event from one of the greatest prose stylists of our time, The Complete Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov brings together all of Nabokovs short fiction in one collection for the first time. These stories are wonders of the English language.--San Francisco Chronicle. nFrom the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, n and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokovs imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseurs samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the masters genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.