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Vladimir Nabokov

One of the twentieth century'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

Beautiful copy

by Patrick A, Aug 20, 2010

Lolita should be in hardcover, and the one I purchased here was in excellent shape. read more
Pnin

The lovable loser

by Ellyb, Aug 7, 2010

To be honest, I think I will have to read this again someday, because I was so busy chewing on Nabokov's beautiful prose that I sometimes lost track of the bigger picture in terms of plot.
In any ... read more
The Gift

Nabokov's Gift

by goodbooks, Apr 5, 2009

This book is a gift indeed. His prose reads like poetry and as in most of his work, it is obvious that his heart is broken over the exile from his homeland. The details of a childhood in Russia and ... read more

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