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    Look at the Harlequins! is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1974. The work was Nabokov's final published novel before his death...
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    Harlequin (/ˈhɑːrləkwɪn/, Italian: Arlecchino, Italian: [arlekˈkiːno]; Lombard: Arlechin, Lombard: [arleˈki]) is the best-known of the comic servant characters...
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  • Wales Cardiff Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales Dallas Harlequins, in the United States Hamilton Harlequins, in New Zealand Harlequin Amateurs,...
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    novel The Kingdom by the Sea. Nabokov later used this as the title of the Lolita "doppelganger novel" in Look at the Harlequins!. The English composer Henry...
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    Vladimir Nabokov (category Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States)
    (1972) Transparent Things (1974) Look at the Harlequins! (2009) The Original of Laura (fragmentary; written during the mid-1970s and published posthumously)...
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  • The Ambidextrous Universe, page 165 [sic]. Look at the Harlequins! Nabokov's 1974 novel Look at the Harlequins!, about a man who cannot distinguish left...
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  • (1972) Transparent Things (1974) Look at the Harlequins! (2009) The Original of Laura (fragmentary, written during the mid-1970s and published posthumously)...
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  • Harlequins (officially Harlequin Football Club) is a professional rugby union club that plays in Premiership Rugby, the top level of English rugby union...
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  • neuralgia to escape the terrors of aerial combat. The narrator of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Look at the Harlequins! claims to have neuralgia of the jaw.[citation...
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  • Kafka on the Shore Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift; Pale Fire; Look at the Harlequins!; Lolita Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds Tim O'Brien, The Things They...
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    Véra Nabokov (category Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States)
    at the office and they played chess. Véra admired Vladimir's poetry, which was well known through émigré publications, and went to his readings. The details...
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    Sea in his 1974 pseudo-autobiographical novel Look at the Harlequins! for a Lolita-like book written by the narrator who, in addition, travels with his...
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  • under the title Speak on, Memory or Speak, America. He wrote, however, a fictional autobiographic memoir of a double persona, Look at the Harlequins!, apparently...
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  • Dmitri Nabokov (category Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States)
    was raised in the Boston area during the years that his father both taught at Wellesley College and served as curator of lepidoptery at Harvard University's...
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    Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (category Members of the 1st State Duma of the Russian Empire)
    family in Courland. He studied criminal law at the University of St. Petersburg and taught criminology at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence. Nabokov...
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  • his final novel, Look at the Harlequins! (1974). In a 1967 interview with Alfred Appel Jr, Nabokov retrospectively suggested that the work might have represented...
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  • National Book Award for Fiction (category 1950 establishments in the United States)
    on the Year's Books: Authors of Preferred Volumes Hailed at Luncheon of Booksellers Group". The New York Times. February 26, 1937. Archived from the original...
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  • 1974 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
    Nabokov – Look at the Harlequins! Edith Pargeter – Sunrise in the West (first in the Brothers of Gwynedd quartet) Robert B. Parker – God Save the Child Ellen...
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  • 1949, from the 1960s, it grew into the largest publisher of romance fiction in the world. Based in Toronto since 1969, Harlequin was owned by the Torstar...
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  • "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" is a dystopian science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison that was published in 1965. First...
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    Joe Marler (category Harlequin F.C. players)
    Harlequins and the England national team. Marler was educated at Maynards Green Primary School and Heathfield Community College and began playing at the...
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    later. Harlequins were used for meat during World War II. Harlequins are nicknamed “the clown of the rabbits” and “the royal jester” because of the color...
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  • villain Harley Quinn derives her name and look from a harlequin jester. To a lesser extent, her boss, the Joker was based on a Jester from a Joker playing...
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  • London Broncos (redirect from Harlequins RL)
    Crusaders and Harlequins Rugby League. London's home colours are black and red. Professional rugby league was briefly represented in London during the 1930s by...
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  • Life Forms. Retrieved August 17, 2019. Wikispecies has information related to Nabokovia. Images representing Nabokovia at Butterflies of America v t e...
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    Twickenham Stoop (redirect from The Stoop)
    to the Harlequins in Premiership Rugby and has a capacity of 14,800. In 1906, Harlequins were invited by the Rugby Football Union to use the new national...
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    Karl Dickson (category Harlequin F.C. players)
    rugby player. "Harlequins 1st XV". Harlequins website. Retrieved 15 July 2012. "Karl Dickson Player Profile". RFU website. Archived from the original on...
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  • Grange Harlequins 1999–2002: Porto Grange Harlequins 2002–2005: Grange Harlequins 2005–2006: Cardiff Grange Harlequins 2006–2009: Grange Harlequins 2009–2010:...
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    Nabokov House (category Houses completed in the 19th century)
    with the modern street number of 47 Great Morskaya Street (Bol'shaia morskaia ulitsa), 190000. In 1897, the mansion became the property of the liberal...
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  • Oscar Beard (category Harlequin F.C. players)
    (10 April 2022). "Young Guns: Harlequins centre Oscar Beard". The Rugby Paper. Retrieved 17 January 2024. "Harlequins: Oscar Beard and Will Evans agree...
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