'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pa
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the eminent Russian-American writer and intellectual, is best known for his novels, though he was also the author of plays, poems, and short stories. In this important ne
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire,and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 19
Featuring sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, the author displays a range of inventiveness, with sleight of hand fairy tales, intellectual games, and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.
'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir Nabokov 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled ric
