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After a brilliant literary career in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov came to the United States and went on to an even more brilliant one in English--earning a place as one of the greatest writers of his adopted home. Between 1941 and 1974 he published the autobiography and eight novels now... read more
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov (Author)Awe and exhiliration — along with heartbreak and mordant wit — abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores...
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Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokov (Author)Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a...
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov (Author)A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed — according to Nabokov's fiction — by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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Lolita: A Screenplay
by Vladimir Nabokov (Author)Originally written in 1955, this comic satire of sex and the American ways of life focuses on the love of a middle-aged European for an American nymphet. It was made into a Stanley Kubrick film in 1962, starring Peter Sellers, James Mason and...
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