Terra Incognita

''The woods were gradually thinning. I was tormented by strange hallucinations.I gazed at the weird tree trunks, around some of which were coiled thick, flesh-coloured snakes; suddenly I thought I saw, between the trunks, as though through my fingers, the mirror of a half-open wardrobe...''

These three stories of menace, magic and melancholy display Vladimir Nabokov''s astonishing range and inventi...