NABOKOV'S CONGERIES

Mr. Stegner did a study of Nabokov which appeared before Andrew Field's, and in this substantial selection of his works adds an evaluative introduction along with bibliographical notes and a chronology. Represented: the full text of Pnin; very full excerpts from Speak, Memory; sections from three novels (Despair, The Gift, and Invitation to a Beheading): poems; eleven short stories; essays and criticism, the preface to Lolita, and two unpublished pieces. Summum bonum omnium gatherum.