Overlook Illustrated Lives: Vladimir Nabokov
New York, NY: Overlook Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. “History seemed to pursue Vladimir Nabokov. In the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Second World War he lost his homeland, social position, and family, and was even forced to abandon working in his own language. By the time Lolita was published in 1955, Nabokov, by then an American citizen, caused a sensation and established his reputation as a strikingly original..... More
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