Vladimir Nabokov. El cuento de Navidad : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. El cuento de Navidad
, faith, successes. Twenty-five years had passed since a plump journal had carried his first story. Koro lenko had liked him. He had been arrested now and then. One news paper had been closed down on his account. Now his civic aspirations had been fulfilled. Among beginning, younger writers he felt free and at ease. His new life suited him to a T. Six volumes. His name well known. But his fame was pallid, pallid....
He skipped back to the Christmas-tree image, and suddenly, for no apparent reason, remembered the parlor of a merchant family's house, a large volume of articles and poems with gilt-edged pages (a benelii edition for the poor) somehow connected with that house, the Christ mas