These 13 confections by Nabokov were written in the 1940s and ’50s and originally published in various magazines, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, and The New Yorker, among others. The stories are not written to any theme; each one stands alone and unique, and in each we find examples of Nabokov’s brilliant talent for description, humor, melancholy, or delight. I won’t summarize them all, but here are some of my favorites.
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