Nabokov's Congeries

Nabokov's Congeries
	First edition
Author	Vladimir Nabokov
Language	English
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	1968
Media type	Print

Nabokov's Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. 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.

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.

"Terra Incognita"
"Cloud, Castle, Lake" (Облако, озеро, башня)
"The Visit to the Museum" (Посещение музея)
"Spring in Fialta" (Весна в Фиальте)
"That in Aleppo Once..."
"The Assistant Producer"
"Signs and Symbols"
"First Love"
"Lance"
"The Vane Sisters"
"Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster"

Essays and Criticism

On a Book Entitled Lolita
Introduction to Bend Sinister
Foreword to Mihail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time
From Nikolai Gogol: The Government Specter
From the Commentary to Eugene Onegin: On Romanticism; The Art of the Duel
From Eugene Onegin: A Sample Translation from Chapter One, Stanzas I-VIII
Reply to My Critics

A Novel and Three Excerpts

Pnin complete
From Despair
From Invitation to a Beheading
From The Gift

Poems

The Refrigerator Awakes
A Literary Dinner
A Discovery
An Evening of Russian Poetry
Restoration
Lines Written in Oregon
Ode to a Model
On Translating Eugene Onegin
Rain
The Ballad of Longwood Glen

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