Nabokov's Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. Because Nabokov supervised its production less than a decade before he died, it is useful in attempting to identify which works Nabokov considered to be his best, especially among his short stories.

Contents

• Introduction by Page Stegner
• From "Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited"

Short stories

• "Cloud, Castle, Lake " (Облако, озеро, башня)
• "The Visit to the Museum " (Посещение музея)
• "Spring in Fialta " (Весна в Фиальте)
• "That in Aleppo Once... "
• "The Assistant Producer "
• "Signs and Symbols "
• "First Love"
• "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster "
• "Lance "
• "The Vane Sisters"

Excerpts from Novels and Translations

• On a Book Entitled "Lolita"
• Introduction to "Bend Sinister"
• Foreword to M. Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time"
• From "Nikolai Gogol": The Government Specter
• From the Commentary to "Eugene Onegin": On Romanticism, The Art of the Duel
• From "Eugene Onegin": A Sample translation from Ch.One, Stanzas I-VIII
• Reply to My Critics
• From "Despair "
• From "The Gift"
• Pnin