A Matter of Chance
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"A Matter of Chance" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was rejected by the newspaper Rul and first published by the émigré magazine Segodnya in Riga. In 1974 it became part of a collection of thirteen stories called Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories published by McGraw-Hill. In 1995, it was included in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, edited by his son Dmitri Nabokov.[1]
