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    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July...
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    Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Дми́триевич Набо́ков; 21 July [O.S. 8 July] 1870 – 28 March 1922) was a Russian criminologist, journalist...
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  • This is a list of works by writer Vladimir Nabokov. (1926) Mashen'ka (Машенька); English translation: Mary (1970) (1928) Korol', dama, valet (Король, дама...
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    Lolita (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
    Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist is...
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  • of Vladimir Nabokov (in some British editions, The Collected Stories) is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever...
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    April 1991) was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works. Born Vera Yevseyevna...
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  • author Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Véra; they emigrated to the United States from France in 1940. He later was naturalized. In his later years, Nabokov translated...
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  • Pale Fire (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
    Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional poet John Shade,...
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  • Pnin (novel) (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
    Pnin (Russian: Пнин, IPA: [pnʲin]) is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. The success of Pnin in...
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    Invitation to a Beheading (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
     'Invitation to an execution') is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov. It was originally published in Russian from 1935 to 1936 as a serial...
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    romanized: Dar) is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. Nabokov wrote it between...
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    Lolita (1962 film) (category Films based on works by Vladimir Nabokov)
    directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature lecturer...
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    he probably at least audited Vladimir Nabokov's Literature 312 class. (Nabokov had no recollection of him but Nabokov's wife Véra recalls grading Pynchon's...
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  • Nabokov's Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. It was edited by Page...
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  • Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
    A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. Ada began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, "The...
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    Vladimir Nabokov. Sergey was born in Saint Petersburg into the noble Nabokov family. His father was the noted Russian lawyer and statesman Vladimir Dmitrievich...
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  • English-language collection of stories written in Russian, French, and English by Vladimir Nabokov. It was published in December 1947 by New Directions in New York City...
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    [citation needed] Vladimir Nabokov severely criticised Arndt's translation, as he had criticised many previous (and later) translations. Nabokov's main criticism...
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  • Essays on Vladimir Nabokov; G. K. Hall. Hayles, N. Katherine (1984), "Ambivalence: Symmetry, Asymmetry, and the Physics of Time Reversal in Nabokov's Ada"...
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    Posthumous research has shown that Vladimir Nabokov drew on the details of her case in writing his novel Lolita, although Nabokov consistently denied this during...
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  • defining a young girl as "precociously seductive." It originates from Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, which portrays the narrator Humbert's sexual obsession...
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    The Original of Laura (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
    incomplete novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which he was writing at the time of his death in 1977. It was published by Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov in 2009, despite...
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    playing the title role in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, for which she was awarded a Golden Globe. Lyon's early...
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    general social circumstances, have also gained a large following. Vladimir Nabokov rejected such interpretations, noting that they do not live up to Kafka's...
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  • and William S. Burrough's The Nova Trilogy. Topping the list is Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire, which McCaffery called the "most audaciously...
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    associate of Alexei Navalny Vladimir D. Nabokov (1870–1922), Russian criminologist, journalist, and progressive statesman Vladimir Plahotniuc (born 1966),...
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  • Speak, Memory (category Books by Vladimir Nabokov)
    by writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book includes individual essays published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov's revised and...
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    mansion became the property of the liberal statesman and jurist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, and as such the house hosted many important political meetings...
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  • Lolita (1997 film) (category Films based on works by Vladimir Nabokov)
    written by Stephen Schiff. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel of the same name and stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert...
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    Vyacheslav Ivanov; novelists such as Ivan Shmelyov, Gaito Gazdanov, Vladimir Nabokov and Bunin, continued to write in exile. Some writers dared to oppose...
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