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Written between the 1920s and the 1950s, these 68 tales 14 of which have been translated into english for the first time display all the shades of nabokovs imagination. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized european colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar america. Sep 20, 2005 awe and exhilirationalong with heartbreak and mordant witabound in lolita, nabokov s most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging humbert humberts obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet dolores haze. Written between the 1920s and the 1950s, these 68 tales 14 of which have been translated into english for the first time display all the shades of nabokov. The author of the immortal lolita and pale fire, born to an eminent russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist. The stories of vladimir nabokov book by vladimir nabokov. From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels lolita, pale fire, and ada, or ardor, and so many ot.
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