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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Nabokov, Vladimir. "Cloud, Castle, Lake." The Atlantic, June, 1941. Web.

• The story is framed as a recollection; the unnamed first-person narrator tells the story of when one of his "representatives—a modest, mild bachelor, very efficient—happened to win a pleasure trip at a charity ball given by Russian refugees" (3).

• The setting is summer in Berlin.

• The narrator comments that the representative--whose name, to the best of his recollection, was Vasili Ivanovich--was not particularly interested in going anywhere, and so Ivanovich tried to sell his ticket back to the "Bureau of Pleasantrips" (3).

• Unfortunately, he was told that in order to sell his ticket, he would need to comply with a byzantine set of bureaucratic rules: "he would have to have special permission from the Ministry of Transportation; when he tried them, it turned...

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