Nine Stories is an English

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-language collection of stories written in Russian

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, French

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, and English 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...

. It was published in 1947 by New Directions in New York City

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, as the second issue of a serial, Direction.

The nine stories are:

• "The Aurelian
  The Aurelian
  "The Aurelian" is a short story first written in Russian as Pil'gram by Vladimir Nabokov during his exile in Berlin in 1930. After translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov it was published in English in the Atlantic Monthly in 1941...
  
  " (a translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov of "Pil'gram")
• "Cloud, Castle, Lake" (a translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov of "Oblako, ozero, bashnia")
• "Spring in Fialta
  Spring in Fialta
  Spring in Fialta is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1936, originally as Весна в Фиальте in Russian, during his exile in Berlin. The English translation was performed by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov...
  
  " (a translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov of "Vesna v Fialta")
• "Mademoiselle O
  Mademoiselle O
  "Mademoiselle O" is a memoir by Vladimir Nabokov about his eccentric Swiss French governess.It was first written and published in French in Mesures and subsequently in English in the The Atlantic Monthly .It was first anthologized in Nine Stories and was later reproduced in...
  
  " (a translation by VN with Hilda Ward from the French)
• "A Forgotten Poet"
• "The Assistant Producer"
• "That in Aleppo Once..."
• "Time and Ebb"
• "Double Talk" (which would later be retitled "Conversation Piece")

No further edition of the book was ever published; all nine stories subsequently reappeared in Nabokov's Dozen

Nabokov's Dozen

Nabokov's Dozen a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. All were later reprinted within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov....

, and much later within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote, with the exception of "The Enchanter"...

.