Vladimir Nabokov
One of the twentieth centurya™s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.
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Lolita Lolita
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)When it was published in 1955, “Lolita” immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov’s wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the t…
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Francisco Goldman recommends Pnin
I am always an evangelist for Pnin.
Andrea Busfield recommends Lolita Lolita
Can a book change your life? I’m not sure it can. I think it can influence the way you think for a time, but it’s usually people and events that create change. However, a book that made me stop and think was Lolita.
David Trueba recommends Lolita Lolita
If I could choose one book to be able to read again for the first time, it would be Lolita.
Tom Grimes recommends Lolita Lolita
Maybe my favorite book of all time.
Andrew Foster Altschul recommends Lolita Lolita
This is the book that I most want to read again for the first time.
Joseph Finder recommends Lolita Lolita
Lolita is one of my all time favorite books by Nabokov.
Joseph Finder recommends Pnin
Pnin is one of my all time favorite books by Nabokov.
Paullina Simons recommends Lolita Lolita
I am an evangelist for Lolita.
