Nabokov's Dozen

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Nabokov's Dozen (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. (Nine of them also previously appeared in Nine Stories.)

All were later reprinted within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.

Originally printed as "Spring In Fialta."

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  • Spring In Fialta
  • A Forgotten Poet
  • First Love
  • Signs And Symbols
  • The Assistant Producer
  • The Aurelian
  • Cloud, Castle, Lake
  • Conversation Piece, 1945
  • That in Aleppo Once...
  • Time and Ebb
  • Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster
  • Mademoiselle O
  • Lance

Back of book copy reads, "A nymphet named Colette... 'Two years before, I had been much attached to the lovely, sun-tanned daughter of a Serbian physician; but when I met Colette, I knew at once that this was the real thing...'

So begins a strange and haunting love story by the man who has been called the most brilliant writer of our generation.

Library of Congress Card Number 58-10032 First Printing August 1958 Second Printing November 1958 Published by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Ince Also Popular Library Edition

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