Books, Arts & Manners: Berliner Ensemble

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories By Vladimir Nabokov

McGraw-Hill, 268 pp., $7.95 The 13 short stories in this collection, composed between 1924 and 1940 for Russian emigré periodicals and now translated (by author and son, Dmitri), all rather dolorifically footnote—for here we have, generally, a psychograph of Russian expatriates in the Twenties and Thirties in Germany—a world of very Bad Luck.

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A Russian Beauty and Other Stories By Vladimir Nabokov

McGraw-Hill, 268 pp., $7.95 The 13 short stories in this collection, composed between 1924 and 1940 for Russian emigré periodicals and now translated (by author and son, Dmitri), all rather dolorifically footnote—for here we have, generally, a psychograph of Russian expatriates in the Twenties and Thirties in Germany—a world of very Bad Luck.