Complex sentence: Nine Stories is a English-language collection of stories written in Russian, French, and English by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1947 by New Directions as one issue of a periodical, "Direction 2".
Split into simpler sentences: Nine Stories is a English-language collection of stories written in Russian, French, and English by Vladimir Nabokov. It was published in 1947 by New Directions as one issue of a periodical, "Direction 2".