Tyrants destroyed and other stories
By: [by] Vladimir Nabokov.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; McGraw-Hill Book Company
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: A collection of short stories about Russian émigrés in Germany and France after the Russian Revolution.
Notes: "Of the thirteen stories in this collection the first twelve have been translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author. The thirteenth story was written in English."
Table of contents: title: Tyrants destroyed.; title: A nursery tale.; title: Music.; title: Lik.; title: Recruiting.; title: Terror.; title: The Admiralty spire.; title: A matter of chance.; title: In memory of L. I. Shigaev.; title: Bachmann.; title: Perfection.; title: Vasiliy Shishkov.; title: The Vane sisters.