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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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First Sentence

SEBASTIAN KNIGHT was born on the thirty-first of December, 1899, in the former capital of my country.

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  1. Vladimir Nabokov (Author)

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  1. fiction
  2. library of america 
 

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