- Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
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Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
1st editionAuthor(s) Vladimir Nabokov Translator Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov Language English Publisher McGraw-Hill Publication date 1976 Pages 179 ISBN 0-07-045709-3 OCLC Number 1818528 Dewey Decimal 891.7/3/42 LC Classification PZ3.N121 Dg PG3476.N3 Details of a Sunset and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1935 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and Riga and published individually in the emigre press at that time later to be translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov. The collection was published with a foreword by the author in 1976.
Stories included
- "Details of a Sunset"
- "A Bad Day"
- "Orache"
- "The Return of Chorb"
- "The Passenger"
- "A Letter that Never Reached Russia"
- "A Guide to Berlin"
- "The Doorbell"
- "The Thunderstorm"
- "The Reunion"
- "A Slice of Life"
- "Christmas"
- "A Busy Man"
Works by Vladimir Nabokov Novels RussianMary · King, Queen, Knave · The Defense · The Eye · Glory · Laughter in the Dark · Despair · Invitation to a Beheading · The Gift · The Enchanter
EnglishThe Real Life of Sebastian Knight · Bend Sinister · Lolita · Pnin · Pale Fire · Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle · Transparent Things · Look at the Harlequins! · The Original of Laura (unfinished fragment)
Short
storiesRussian"The Wood-Sprite" · "Russian Spoken Here" · "Sounds" · "Wingstroke" · "Gods" · "A Matter of Chance" · "The Seaport" · "Revenge" · "Beneficence" · "Details of a Sunset" · "The Thunderstorm" · "La Veneziana" · "Bachmann" · "The Dragon" · "Christmas" · "A Letter That Never Reached Russia" · "The Fight" · "The Return of Chorb" · "A Guide to Berlin" · "A Nursery Tale" · "Terror" · "Razor" · "The Passenger" · "The Doorbell" · "An Affair of Honor" · "The Christmas Story" · "The Potato Elf" · "The Aurelian" · "A Dashing Fellow" · "A Bad Day" · "The Visit to the Museum" · "A Busy Man" · "Terra Incognita" · "The Reunion" · "Lips to Lips" · "Orache" · "Music" · "Perfection" · "The Admiralty Spire" · "The Leonardo" · "In Memory of L. I. Shigaev" · "The Circle" · "A Russian Beauty" · "Breaking the News" · "Torpid Smoke" · "Recruiting" · "A Slice of Life" · "Spring in Fialta" · "Cloud, Castle, Lake" · "Tyrants Destroyed" · "Lik" · "Vasiliy Shishkov" · "Ultima Thule" · "Solus Rex" · "The Word" · "Natasha"
FrenchEnglish"The Assistant Producer" · "That in Aleppo Once..." · "A Forgotten Poet" · "Time and Ebb" · "Conversation Piece, 1945" · "Signs and Symbols" · "First Love" · "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" · "The Vane Sisters" · "Lance" · "Easter Rain"
Plays RussianDeath · The Grandfather · The North Pole · The Tragedy of Mr. Morn · The Man from the USSR · The Event · The Waltz Invention
Non-fiction Memoirs & LettersSpeak, Memory · The Nabokov-Wilson letters · Selected Letters, 1940-1977
CriticismStrong Opinions · Nikolai Gogol · Lectures on Literature · Lectures on Russian Literature · Lectures on Don Quixote · Notes on Prosody
Miscellanea Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Russian translation) ·
Poems and Problems · Lolita: A Screenplay · The Annotated Lolita · Carrousel · A Hero of Our Time (English translation) · Eugene Onegin (English translation) · Father's Butterflies
Categories:- Short story collections by Vladimir Nabokov
- 1976 short story collections
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