English title | Original language | Original publication | Original English collection |
"The Wood-Sprite" | Russian | Rul' (1921) | - |
"Russian Spoken Here" | Russian | - (composed 1923) | - |
"Sounds" | Russian | The New Yorker (1995; composed 1923) | - |
"Wingstroke" | Russian | Russkoye Ekho (1924) | - |
"Gods" | Russian | (composed 1923) | - |
"A Matter of Chance" | Russian | Segodnya (1924) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"The Seaport" | Russian | Rul' (1924) | - |
"Revenge" | Russian | Russkoye Ekho (1924) | - |
"Beneficence" | Russian | Rul' (1924) | - |
"Details of a Sunset" | Russian | Segodnya (1924) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"The Thunderstorm" | Russian | Rul' (1924) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"La Veneziana" | Russian | (composed 1924) | - |
"Bachmann" | Russian | Rul' (1924) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"The Dragon" | Russian | (composed 1924) | - |
"Christmas" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"A Letter That Never Reached Russia" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"The Fight" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | - |
"The Return of Chorb" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"A Guide to Berlin" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"A Nursery Tale" | Russian | Rul' (1926) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"Terror" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1927) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"Razor" | Russian | Rul' (1926) | - |
"The Passenger" | Russian | Rul' (1927) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"The Doorbell" | Russian | Rul' (1927) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"An Affair of Honor" | Russian | Rul' (1927) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"The Christmas Story" | Russian | Rul' (1928) | - |
"The Potato Elf" | Russian | Rul' (1929) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"The Aurelian" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1931) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"A Dashing Fellow" | Russian | Segodnya (early 1930s) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"A Bad Day" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1931) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"The Visit to the Museum" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1939) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"A Busy Man" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1931) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"Terra Incognita" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1931) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"The Reunion" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1932) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"Lips to Lips" | Russian | Vesna v Fialte (1956) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"Orache" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1932) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"Music" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1932) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"Perfection" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1932) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"The Admiralty Spire" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1933) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"The Leonardo" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1933) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"In Memory of L. I. Shigaev" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1934) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"The Circle" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (presumed; 1936) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"A Russian Beauty" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1934) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"Breaking the News" | Russian | unknown, circa 1935 | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"Torpid Smoke" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1935) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"Recruiting" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1935) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"A Slice of Life" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1935) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
"Spring in Fialta" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1937) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"Cloud, Castle, Lake" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1938) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"Tyrants Destroyed" | Russian | Russkiya Zapiski (1938) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"Lik" | Russian | Russkiya Zapiski (1939) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"Vasiliy Shishkov" | Russian | Russkiya Zapiski (1939) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"Ultima Thule" | Russian | Novyy Zhurnal (1942) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"Solus Rex" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1940) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
"Mademoiselle O" | French | Mesures (1936) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"The Assistant Producer" | English | Atlantic Monthly | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"That in Aleppo Once…" | English | Atlantic Monthly | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"A Forgotten Poet" | English | Atlantic Monthly | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"Time and Ebb" | English | Atlantic Monthly | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"Conversation Piece, 1945" | English | The New Yorker (1945) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"Signs and Symbols" | English | The New Yorker (1948) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"First Love" | English | The New Yorker (1948) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" | English | The Reporter | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"The Vane Sisters" | English | Hudson Review (1959) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
"Lance" | English | The New Yorker (1952) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
"Easter Rain" | Russian | Russkoe Ekho (1925) | 11th U.S. paperback printing (2002) |
"The Word" | Russian | Rul' (1923) | 15th U.S. paperback printing (2006) |
"Natasha" | Russian | The New Yorker (2008; composed 1924) | 17th U.S. paperback printing (2008) |