Nabokov described it then as ""the first little throb of Lolita '' and said its title anticipated the ``enchanted hunter''... Vladimir Nabokov, edited and trans. from the Russian by Olga Voronina ...

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's serio-comic portrait of small-town America, is published in 1955 in France by the Olympia Press. It has been rejected by four American publishers who are terrified of ...

Until V. V. Nabokov came to America in 1940 we Americans had no great modern artist in nostalgia of our own, although F. Scott Fitzgerald strikes the authentic note when he imagines Nick Carraway ...

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. -Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Do you believe in love at first sight? Many Americans do. In a survey of over 5000 singles on Match.com ...

Vladimir Nabokov, 1951 This is my all-time favourite – I've probably read it about 50 times. A profound, honest memoir of exile, it's searing, but at the same time luxuriously beautiful.