Details of a Sunset and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...

. All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1935 as an expatriate in Berlin

Berlin

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, Paris

Paris

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, and Riga

Riga

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 and published individually in the emigre press at that time later to be translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov

Dmitri Nabokov

Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov is an American opera singer and translator. He is the only child of writer Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera Nabokov, and is currently executor of his father's literary estate.-Background:...

. The collection was published with a foreword by the author in 1976.

Stories included

• "Details of a Sunset
  Details of a Sunset
  Details of a Sunset is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924....
  
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• "A Bad Day"
• "Orache"
• "The Return of Chorb
  The Return of Chorb
  The Return of Chorb is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1925. In 1929 it became part of a collection of fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems also called Vozvrashchenie Chorba in Russian by "V...
  
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• "The Passenger"
• "A Letter that Never Reached Russia"
• "A Guide to Berlin
  A Guide to Berlin
  "A Guide to Berlin" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1925. It was later translated by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov, into English and included in the collection Details of a Sunset and Other Stories .-Plot summary:...
  
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• "The Doorbell"
• "The Thunderstorm"
• "The Reunion"
• "A Slice of Life"
• "Christmas"
• "A Busy Man"