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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov about Edited, Dmitri with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies?
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conversations.value: These stories, written between the early 1920s to the mid-1950s, reveal the fascinating progress of the author's early development as they remind us that we are in the presence of a magnificent original, a genuine master. Edited by his son and translator, Dmitri the author, this volume is a literary event.
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conversations.value: What is the first four paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
  The thirteenth story was written in English in Ithaca, upstate New York, at 802 East Seneca Street, a dismal grayish-white frame house, subjectively related to the more famous one at 342 Lawn Street, Ramsdale, New England.
  This collection is the last batch of my Russian stories meriting to be Englished. They cover a period of eleven years (1924–1935); all of them appeared in the émigré dailies and magazines of the time, in Berlin, Riga, and Paris.
  It may be helpful, in some remote way, if I give here a list of all my translated stories, as published, in four separate volumes in the U.S.A. during the last twenty years.
  Dmitri Nabokov was born in 1934 in Berlin and came to the United States as a young child with his parents. He graduated from Harvard, served in the U.S. Army, and then began the vocal studies that led him to become an opera and concert performer (as a basso) around the world. He has translated most of his father's Russian short stories and plays and many of his novels into English.
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conversations.value: What is another paragraph?
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conversations.value: Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing store, is ruddy, self-satisfied, and masculine, but repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead.
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conversations.value: What is the last four paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing store, is ruddy, self-satisfied, and masculine, but repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead.
  As a young boy, Luzhin is unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen—an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge, and rises to the rank of grandmaster, but at a cost: in Luzhin's obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants reality.
  Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever.
  Many knew of Sebastian Knight, distinguished novelist, but few knew of the two love affairs that so profoundly influenced his career. After Knight's death, his half brother sets out to penetrate the enigma of his life, starting with clues found in the novelist's private papers.