Nabokov's Congeries

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Nabokov's Congeries
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First edition
Author Vladimir Nabokov
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date
1968
Media typePrint

Nabokov's Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. It was edited by Page Stegner. [1] Because Nabokov supervised its production less than a decade before he died, it is useful in attempting to identify which works Nabokov considered to be his best, especially among his short stories.

Contents

The text of "The Assistant Producer" contained in Nabokov's Congeries omits the story's final two paragraphs, which had apparently been inadvertently dropped from all English-language editions of the story subsequent to the first. This was explained by the author's son in his introduction to the posthumously published collection The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (1995), in which the story appears with its final paragraphs restored.

Contents

The Artist Himself

Eleven Stories

Essays and Criticism

A Novel and Three Excerpts

Poems

References

  1. Morris, Paul D. (September 3, 2011). Vladimir Nabokov: Poetry and the Lyric Voice. University of Toronto Press. p. 28. ISBN   978-1-4426-9884-0.

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