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Finally, Vladimir Nabokov’s masterpiece; Lolita.

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07. borrowed // Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published on this day in 1958.

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A part of my shelves. Top shelves include mostly the books I haven’t read yet including the writers Muriel Barberry, Arnon Grunberg, Ralph Ellison, David Mitchell’s Black Swan Lake, Joseph Conrad, Coetzee, Elsa Triolet, Yukio Mishima and a few books of the writers I have read recently including Roberto Bolano, Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Malet, Georges Perec, Jonathan Coe, Jeanette Winterson, etc. The shelves underneath only include my English books.

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“Pale Fire,” by Vladimir Nabokov

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TO BE SHELVED: More John

Vladimir Nabokov covers, under the direction of John Gall

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“Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov. The famous American poet John Shade was murdered in 1959. This book contains his last poem, Pale Fire, together with a foreword, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade’s editor Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the ‘Great Beaver’, Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he - can he possibly be - mad, bad, even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal, he reveals perhaps more than he should about ‘the glorious friendship that brightened the last months of John Shade’s life.