Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

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Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories, is a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov written between 1924 and 1939. The first 12 stories were written while the author was living abroad in Berlin, Paris and Menton. (Originally from Saint Petersburg the Nabokov family emigrated in exil to Europe in 1919 following the Russian Revolutions of 1917). The thirteenth story alone was composed originally in English (written in Ithaca Up-state New York 1951). The other titles in the collection have been translated into English by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author. Contents: Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, 31 December 1974. 1. Tyrants Destroyed 2. A Nursery Tale 3. Music 4. Lik 5. Recruiting 6. Terror 7. The Admiralty Spire 8. A Matter of Chance 9. In Memory of L. I. Shigaev 10. Bachmann 11. Perfection 12. Vasiliy Shishkov 13. The Vane SIsters.