A Russian Beauty and Other Stories

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories

First edition
Author	Vladimir Nabokov
Translator	Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov; Simon Karlinsky
Language	English
Publisher	McGraw-Hill
Publication date	1973
Pages	268
ISBN	0-07-045735-2
OCLC	447413
Dewey Decimal	891.7/3/42
LC Class	PZ3.N121 Ru PG3476.N3

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1923 and 1940 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and other places in western Europe. They appeared individually in the Russian émigré press. Subsequently, they were translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov but for the first story which was translated by Simon Karlinsky. The collection was published in 1973.

Stories included

• "A Russian Beauty"
• "The Leonardo"
• "Torpid Smoke"
• "Breaking the News"
• "Lips to Lips"
• "A Visit to the Museum"
• "An Affair of Honor"
• "Terra Incognita"
• "A dashing Fellow"
• "Ultima Thule"
• "Solus Rex"
• "The Potato Elf"
• "The Circle"

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