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Lolita
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Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores... »
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The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
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In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher mor... »
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Nabokov achieves perfect balance as he tells the story of Timofey Pnin, a bumbling Russian A migrA and permanent associate professor. Here, Professor Pnin is oddly lovable and out-of-place in America. But he is also easy prey--exploited cruelly by his ex-wife and mocked mercilessly by his colleagues, who make Pnin impressions and stories a staple at c... »
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
A wonderfully crafted masterpiece, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the must-reads of all time. This beautiful piece of literature appeals to many differ... »
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Pale Fire
Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet ... »
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Lolita
In the field of erotic literature, this novel has probably touched the awareness of the public more than any other, to such an extent that the once innocu... »
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Invitation to a Beheading
Most of the enjoyment with this book is the discovery of Nabokov's creation. Frankly, I suggest that you skip the reviews here, close your eyes for the mo... »
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
These stories, written between the early 1920s to the mid-1950s, reveal the fascinating progress of Nabokov's early development as they remind us that we ... »
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Despair
With deliberate reference to Dostoyevsky, and sideways glances at Poe and Kafka, Nabokov's *Despair* takes on the classic literary theme of the d... »
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Lectures on Literature
Nabokov is a native of world literature. So it is no surprise that as he is taking the reader on a guided tour of his land, his strong literary opinions e... »
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