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Carrying on to the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (also titled The Collected Stories and Collected Stories in Britain) pulls together the stories Nabokov wrote and published between 1921 and 1952 in Russian, English, and French. Sixty-five stories in translation from the Russian and French were included in the Knopf first edition in 1995. That count grew to 68 over the course of several Vintage paperback printings as three further stories were recovered. It is a new item in the bibliography.

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Next up for the draft pages of the revised and updated bibliography: Nabokov’s Congeries, a collection of 33 works and excerpts from works, edited by Page Stegner. It was published by The Viking Press in 1968 and then retitled in paperback in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. Three sets of works appeared here for the first time in book form: the story “Terra Incognita”, the revised translation of eight “Eugene Onegin” stanzas, and the essay “Reply to My Critics”. It is A39 in the 1986 bibliography.

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Ploughing on with the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Соглядатай [Sogliadataĭ / The eye] was Nabokov’s collection of a short novel, or long story, and twelve short stories in Russian. The title story/novel appeared in Sovremennye Zapiski in November 1930. The full collection did not appear in book form until Russkie Zapiski published it in Paris in 1938. The English translation of the title story/novel, translated as The Eye, was published by Phaedra in 1965. It is A12 in the 1986 bibliography.

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Making headway with the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Круг [Krug / The Circle] is a collection of poems, plays, translations, and stories that was issued within the Soviet Union in 1990 shortly before its collapse. It contains 30 works in Russian that had never before been issued in book form. The volume did not appear in the 1986 bibliography.

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Onward and upward to the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Details of a Sunset and Other Stories, “the last raisins and petit-beurre toes from the bottom of the barrel”, as Nabokov called the final collection of stories and the final book published in his lifetime. It was first published in 1976 by McGraw-Hill and went through three further editions. Details of a Sunset and Other Stories was A48 in the 1986 bibliography.

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Relentlessly, we move on to the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories, Nabokov’s collection of 13 stories, 12 originally written in Russian and one in English. It was first published in 1975 by McGraw-Hill and went through three further editions. Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories was A47 in the 1986 bibliography.

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Persevering on to the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: A Russian Beauty and Other Stories, Nabokov’s collection of 13 stories originally written in Russian. It was first published in 1973 by McGraw-Hill and went through three further editions. A Russian Beauty and Other Stories was A43 in the 1986 bibliography.

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Pressing on to the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Рассказы. Приглашение на казнь. Роман. Ессе, интервью, рецензии [Rasskazy. Priglashenie na kazn’. Roman. Esse, interv’iu, retsenzii / Stories. Invitation to a beheading. Novel. Essays, interviews, criticism], one of the first Nabokov books published in the Soviet Union during Gorbachev’s glasnost period. Included are 32 works that had never before appeared in book form. Issued in 1989 by Moskva Kniga, it appeared after the 1986 bibliography and has no previous A-item number.

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And on we go with the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Весна в Фиальте [Vesna v Fial’te / Spring in Fialta], a collection of 14 stories Nabokov composed between 1931 and 1940. It was the third of the three Nabokov books the New York-based Chekhov Publishing House issued. The collection has gone through one American and one Russian edition since its first appearance in 1956. Translations of the stories into English are in the The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. Vesna v Fial’te was A29 in the 1986 bibliography.

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We move on with the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Nabokov’s Dozen, a collection of 13 stories written originally in Russian, French, and English, along with a bibliographic note from the author. It was first published in 1958 by Doubleday and went through nine further editions. These stories are now subsumed in the complete collection of 68 stories, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov’s Dozen was A32 in the 1986 bibliography.

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