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Nabokov's short stories tend to vary in quality moreso than his novels, but the best of the best in this complete collection rival the best stories any writer (Hemingway, O'Connor, Melville). A common theme in these stories is Nabokov's exile from his Russian homeland and I found it interesting how many of the stories ("Conversation Piece", "Russian Spoken Here" just to name a few) were much more political in nature than his novels. The majority of these stories were originally written in Russia
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