Vladimir Nabokov: Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) [2017] paperback ZPRAR In September 1944 the OD

In September 1944 the OD

But the more her mother writes the script

to the calming scent of Linden blossom

Each reader will come away changed

Vladimir Nabokov: Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) [2017] paperback ZPRAR In September 1944 the ODThirteen strangely wrought, ingeniously crafted stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam