Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All but the last one were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1939 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and Menton, and later translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov. These stories appeared first individually in the Russian émigré press. The last story was written in English in Ithaca, New York in 1951. The collection was published in 1974.

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Author:Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Year published:1975

Honors and Awards

YearAward Nomination
1976 National Book Award for Fiction
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Author of Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977
Birthplace:Saint Petersburg

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977 was a multilingual Russian novelist, poet and short story writer. Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious...
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Additional works by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
BookCopyright DateGenre
King, Queen, Knave Novel
Pale Fire Fiction
Lolita Novel
The Defense Novel
Laughter in the Dark Novel
Invitation to a Beheading Novel
Glory Fiction
Despair
The Eye
Mary Novel
The Gift
Nabokov's Dozen
Nine Stories
Cloud, Castle, Lake
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov's Congeries
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle May 5, 1969 Science Fiction
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Fiction
Bend Sinister Dystopia
The Original of Laura
Pnin Fiction
Look at the Harlequins!
The Enchanter
Transparent Things
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
The Return of Chorb
Romany, rasskazy, ėsse
Nikolay Gogol
Anniversary notes
defence
Waltz invention
Machenka
Lolita and Poems
Fahles Feuer
Poems
Vozvrashchenie Chorba
Dar
Roi, Dame, Valet
Le Guetteur
Pʹesy
man from the USSR and other plays
Novels, 1955-1962 Fiction
Vintage Nabokov
Notes on Prosody; From the Commentary to the Author's Translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
Speak, memory
Kak i͡a︡ li͡u︡bli͡u︡ tebi͡a︡
Alphabet in color
Who will drive me home?
Korolʹ, dama, valet
Gorniĭ putʹ
Five novels
Mashen'ka
Correspondance, 1940-1971
Quartet
Drugie berega
Otchai͡a︡nie
Strong opinions
Sobranie sochineniĭ russkogo perioda v pi︠a︡ti tomakh
Conclusive evidence
P'Eys
The annotated Lolita
portable Nabokov
Korol
Kamera obskura
Zashchita Luzhina
Istreblenie tiranov
Stikhotvorenii͡a︡, rasskazy
Romany
Don
I bastardi
Nikolai Gogol
Rasskazy
König, dame, bube
Poems and problems
Nabokov o Nabokove i prochem
Novelas 1941-1957/ Novels 1941-1957
Mira Los Arlequines
Stikhi
Ti︠a︡zhelyĭ dym
Lekt︠s︡ii po russkoĭ literature
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya
Blednyĭ ogonʹ
[Podvig
Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951 Fiction
The Nabokov-Wilson letters
Lectures on Russian literature
So dna korobki
Sogli︠a︡dataĭ
Vesna v Fialʹte i drugie rasskazy
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Ada o el Ardor
Palido fuego
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