Tyrants destroyed and other stories

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

McGraw-Hill, 1975 - Fiction - 238 pages

A collection of short stories about Russian émigrés in Germany and France after the Russian Revolution.

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Thirteen not-so-new stories from the audacious doyen of self-conscious artifice — twelve of them dated between 1924 and 1939 from Berlin, Paris, Mentone, and portraying the proud but slightly down at ...

About the author

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nobokov was born April 22, 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia to a wealthy family. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge. When he left Russia, he moved to Paris and eventually to the United States in 1940. He taught at Wellesley College and Cornell University. Nobokov is revered as one of the great American novelists of the 20th Century. Before he moved to the United States, he wrote under the pseudonym Vladimir Serin. Among those titles, were Mashenka, his first novel and Invitation to a Beheading. The first book he wrote in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. He is best know for his work Lolita which was made into a movie in 1962. In addition to novels, he also wrote poetry and short stories. Nabokov died July 2, 1977.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tyrants destroyed and other stories
• Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1975
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 10, 2008
• ISBN: 0070457395, 9780070457393
• Length: 238 pages
• Subjects: Fiction; Fiction / General; Fiction / Short Stories; History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Russian Literature; Short stories; Soviet Union; Soviet union