“While shelving in the Fiction section (ah, the sweet rewards of shelving!), I came upon a used copy of Nabokov’s stories and began leafing through its pages. Years ago, I’d read his charming and much anthologized “Mademoiselle O,” but all the others here were new to me, each luminous in its own way. They range from tender to devilish, whimsical to darkly funny, wry to deeply heartening. And now I’ve happily added Nabokov’s to my bedside stack of favorite short story writers, like Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, D.H. Lawrence, Mavis Gallant, and William Maxwell . . . “—Nancy, University Book Store, Seattle, excerpted from this post at The Shelf Life
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
June 26, 2011
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