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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