A review by rosekk
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov

3.0

Some of the stories were great, and individually would get five stars. However, there is a reason it took me so long to finish this book. Many of them are meant to have a melancholy tone, but I found some of them so gloomy it was hard to get through them, and many of the characters in these excessively gloomy ones were hard to become attached to. This is more to do with me than the actual quality of the stories - Nabokov's writing is always amazing - but I suspect I'm not the only one who will find some of these stories hard to get through.