Nabokov's Congeries - Contents

Contents

  • Editor's Introduction by Page Stegner
  • A Bibliographical Note
  • Vladimir Nabokov: A Chronology

The Artist Himself

  • From Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Eleven Stories

  • "Terra Incognita (short story)"
  • "Cloud, Castle, Lake" (Облако, озеро, башня)
  • "The Visit to the Museum" (Посещение музея)
  • "Spring in Fialta" (Весна в Фиальте)
  • "That in Aleppo Once..."
  • "The Assistant Producer"
  • "Signs and Symbols"
  • "First Love"
  • "Lance"
  • "The Vane Sisters"
  • "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster"

Essays and Criticism

  • On a Book Entitled Lolita
  • Introduction to Bend Sinister
  • Foreword to Mihail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time
  • From Nikolai Gogol: The Government Specter
  • From the Commentary to Eugene Onegin: On Romanticism; The Art of the Duel
  • From Eugene Onegin: A Sample Translation from Chapter One, Stanzas I-VIII
  • Reply to My Critics

A Novel and Three Excerpts

  • Pnin complete
  • From Despair
  • From Invitation to a Beheading
  • From The Gift

Poems

  • The Refrigerator Awakes
  • A Literary Dinner
  • A Discovery
  • An Evening of Russian Poetry
  • Restoration
  • Lines Written in Oregon
  • Ode to a Model
  • On Translating Eugene Onegin
  • Rain
  • The Ballad of Longwood Glen

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