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Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. [1]

207 relations: Acrostic, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Adaptation (arts), Aleksandar Hemon, Alexander II of Russia, Alexander Pushkin, American Museum of Natural History, Anagram, Antibes, Ashland, Oregon, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ayn Rand, Baltic Germans, Baron, Bend Sinister (novel), Bering Strait, Bolsheviks, Boston Review, Brian Boyd, British undergraduate degree classification, C-SPAN, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cannes, Carl Heinrich Graun, Cary Elwes, Charles Nicol, Chess composer, Chess problem, Christopher Plummer, Chromosome, Clarens, Switzerland, Classical liberalism, Constitutional Democratic Party, Cornell University, Crimea, Crimean Regional Government, David Niven, Despair (novel), Die Zeit, Dmitri Nabokov, Don DeLillo, Eastern Orthodox Church, Edmund White, Edmund Wilson, Entomology, Eugene Onegin, Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, Fallacy, February Revolution, Florence Montgomery, ..., Franz Kafka, Fréjus, Garland Science, Gene, Genetics, Genus, German Army (German Empire), Gina Lollobrigida, Glory (novel), Gold mining, Gregorian calendar, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, History of the Jews in Russia, I Have Landed, Iambic tetrameter, Individualism, Ithaca, New York, James Wood (critic), Jane Austen, Jay Greenberg (composer), Jeffrey Eugenides, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jhumpa Lahiri, John Banville, John Moulder-Brown, John Updike, Joseph Conrad, Julian calendar, Karner blue, Ki Longfellow, King, Queen, Knave, King, Queen, Knave (film), Kitsch (magazine), Lepidopterology, Lev Zhurbin, Lidia Charskaya, Literary estate, Literary modernism, Livadiya, Crimea, Lolita, Lycaenidae, Madeleinea, Mail Tribune, Mansfield Park, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Maria Sibylla Merian, Marisha Pessl, Martin Amis, Mary (Nabokov novel), Mary McCarthy (author), Maxim D. Shrayer, Menton, Michael Chabon, Michael Schelle, Mnemosyne, Modern Library, Modern Library 100 Best Novels, Montreux, Morris Bishop, Morza, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Nabokovia, National Book Award for Fiction, Naturalization, Neuengamme concentration camp, New Left, New World, New York Public Library, Nicolas Nabokov, Notes on Prosody, Novelist, October Revolution, Pale Fire, Pavel Milyukov, Penguin Books, Peter Medak, Playboy, Pnin, Poems and Problems, Poet, Polyommatini, Polyommatus, Poshlost, Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Postmodern literature, Prague, Pseudolucia, Psychoanalysis, Pulitzer Prize, Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Reggio Emilia, Richard Nixon, Romance languages, Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate, Russia Beyond, Russian Empire, Russian literature, Russian Provisional Government, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Saint Petersburg, Salman Rushdie, Sex organ, Shirley Temple, Sigmund Freud, Signs and Symbols, Sirin, Siversky, Slavic languages, Speak, Memory, SS Champlain, Stacy Schiff, Stephen Jay Gould, Student activism, Supreme Court of the United States, Synesthesia, T. C. Boyle, Tatars, The Crying of Lot 49, The Defense, The Emigrants (Sebald novel), The Gift (Nabokov novel), The Guardian, The Luzhin Defence, The Metamorphosis, The New York Review of Books, The Original of Laura, The Paris Review, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The Vane Sisters, Thomas Pynchon, Tom Stoppard, Totalitarianism, Trinity College, Cambridge, Tripos, Troika (album), Ukrainian People's Republic, Ulysses (novel), Véra Nabokov, Vietnam War, Visiting Mrs Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, W. G. Sebald, Watercolor painting, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, White movement, Willi Glasauer, William Shakespeare, Woman's Hour, Yuly Aykhenvald, Zadie Smith, Zinaida Gippius, Zoology, 20th century in literature. Expand index (157 more) »

Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.

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Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969.

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Adaptation (arts)

An adaptation is a transfer of a work of art from one medium to another.

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Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon (born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian fiction writer, essayist, and critic.

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Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II (p; 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881) was the Emperor of Russia from the 2nd March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (a) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic eraBasker, Michael.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.

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Anagram

An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.

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Antibes

Antibes (Provençal Occitan: Antíbol) is a Mediterranean resort in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.

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Ashland, Oregon

Ashland is a city in Jackson County, in the State of Oregon.

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States.

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher.

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Baltic Germans

The Baltic Germans (Deutsch-Balten or Deutschbalten, later Baltendeutsche) are ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia.

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Baron

Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary.

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Bend Sinister (novel)

Bend Sinister is a dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during the years 1945 and 1946, and published by Henry Holt and Company in 1947.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Берингов пролив, Beringov proliv, Yupik: Imakpik) is a strait of the Pacific, which borders with the Arctic to north.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (p; derived from bol'shinstvo (большинство), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority"), were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Boston Review

Boston Review is a quarterly American political and literary magazine.

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Brian Boyd

Brian Boyd (born 30 July 1952) is a professor of literature known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on literature and evolution.

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British undergraduate degree classification

The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees (bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees) in the United Kingdom.

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C-SPAN

C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Carl Heinrich Graun

Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor singer.

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Cary Elwes

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born 26 October 1962) is an English actor, voice actor and writer.

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Charles Nicol

Charles Nicol (born 1940) is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov, and also writes widely on fiction (particularly science fiction and detective fiction) and popular culture.

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Chess composer

A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems.

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Chess problem

A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by somebody using chess pieces on a chess board, that presents the solver with a particular task to be achieved.

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Christopher Plummer

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian actor.

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Chromosome

A chromosome (from Ancient Greek: χρωμόσωμα, chromosoma, chroma means colour, soma means body) is a DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material (genome) of an organism.

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Clarens, Switzerland

Clarens is a small village in the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.

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Classical liberalism

Classical liberalism is a political ideology and a branch of liberalism which advocates civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on economic freedom.

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Constitutional Democratic Party

The Constitutional Democratic Party (Конституционно-демократическая партия, Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya), also called Constitutional Democrats, formally Party of People's Freedom, was a liberal political party in the Russian Empire, encompassing constitutional monarchists and right-wing republicans.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Crimea

Crimea (Крым, Крим, Krym; Krym; translit;; translit) is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast.

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Crimean Regional Government

"Crimean Regional Government" (Крымское краевое правительство Krymskoe kraevoe pravitel'stvo) refers to two successive short-lived regimes in the Crimean Peninsula during 1918 and 1919.

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David Niven

James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was an English actor, memoirist and novelist.

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Despair (novel)

Despair (Отчаяние, or) is the seventh novel by Vladimir Nabokov, originally published in Russian, serially in the politicized literary journal Sovremennye zapiski during 1934.

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Die Zeit

Die Zeit (literally "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in north Germany.

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Dmitri Nabokov

Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (Дми́трий Влади́мирович Набо́ков; May 10, 1934February 23, 2012) was an American opera singer and translator.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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Edmund White

Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics.

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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin (pre-reform Russian: Евгеній Онѣгинъ; post-reform r) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin.

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Fairmont Le Montreux Palace

Fairmont Le Montreux Palace is a luxury hotel located on the shores of Lake Geneva at Avenue Claude Nobs 2, in the city of Montreux in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, and managed by General Manager, Michael Smithuis.

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Fallacy

A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves" in the construction of an argument.

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February Revolution

The February Revolution (p), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.

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Florence Montgomery

Florence Montgomery (1843–1923) was an English novelist and children's writer.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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Fréjus

Fréjus is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

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Garland Science

Garland Science is a publishing group that specializes in developing textbooks in a wide range of life sciences subjects, including cell and molecular biology, immunology, protein chemistry, genetics, and bioinformatics.

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Gene

In biology, a gene is a sequence of DNA or RNA that codes for a molecule that has a function.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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German Army (German Empire)

The Imperial German Army (Deutsches Heer) was the name given to the combined land and air forces of the German Empire (excluding the Marine-Fliegerabteilung maritime aviation formations of the Imperial German Navy).

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Gina Lollobrigida

Luigina "Gina" Lollobrigida (born 4 July 1927) is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor.

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Glory (novel)

Glory (Подвиг) is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov between 1930 and 1932 and first published in Paris.

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Gold mining

Gold mining is the resource extraction of gold by mining.

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Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used civil calendar in the world.

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Harvard Museum of Natural History

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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History of the Jews in Russia

Jews in the Russian Empire have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world.

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I Have Landed

I Have Landed (2002) is the 10th and final volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.

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Iambic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter is a meter in poetry.

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Individualism

Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual.

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Ithaca, New York

Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

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James Wood (critic)

James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965 in Durham, England)"WOOD, James Douglas Graham", Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011; online edn, November 2011, is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Jay Greenberg (composer)

Jay "Bluejay" Greenberg (born December 13, 1991, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American composer and former child prodigy who entered the Juilliard School in 2002 at age 10.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski (born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী; born on July 11, 1967) is an American author.

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John Banville

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who sometimes writes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter.

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John Moulder-Brown

John Moulder-Brown (born 3 June 1953) is a British actor, perhaps best known for his roles in the films Deep End, First Love (both 1970), Ludwig (1972) and La residencia.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

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Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC), was a reform of the Roman calendar.

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Karner blue

The Karner blue (Plebejus melissa samuelis) is an endangered subspecies of small blue butterfly which was once found in significant numbers in Miller Beach, now part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

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Ki Longfellow

Ki Longfellow (born 'Baby Kelly', later named Pamela in 1944) is an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur with dual citizenship in Britain.

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King, Queen, Knave

King, Queen, Knave is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928.

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King, Queen, Knave (film)

King, Queen, Knave is a 1972 West German comedy film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.

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Kitsch (magazine)

Kitsch is a magazine jointly produced by students of Cornell University and Ithaca College.

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Lepidopterology

Lepidopterology (from Ancient Greek λεπίδος (scale) and πτερόν (wing); and -λογία -logia.), is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies.

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Lev Zhurbin

Lev Zhurbin (born August 18, 1978 in Moscow, Russia) is a composer and violist.

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Lidia Charskaya

Lidia Alekseyevna Charskaya (Ли́дия Алексе́евна Чар́ская), January 31, 1875 – March 18, 1938, was a Russian writer and actress.

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Literary estate

The literary estate of a deceased author consists mainly of the copyright and other intellectual property rights of published works, including film, translation rights, original manuscripts of published work, unpublished or partially completed work, and papers of intrinsic literary interest such as correspondence or personal diaries and records.

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Literary modernism

Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction.

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Livadiya, Crimea

Livadiya (Лівадія, Ливадия, Livadiia) is an urban-type settlement in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine but incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.

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Lolita

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov.

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Lycaenidae

Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies.

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Madeleinea

Madeleinea is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae.

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Mail Tribune

The Mail Tribune is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Medford, Oregon, United States that serves Jackson County, Oregon, and adjacent areas of northern California.

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814.

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Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (14 June 1939 in Barcelona – 18 October 2003 in Bangkok) was a prolific Spanish writer: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and a FC Barcelona supporter.

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Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 164713 January 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family.

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Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl (born c. 1977/1978) is an American writer best known for her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

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Martin Amis

Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist and memoirist.

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Mary (Nabokov novel)

Mary (Машенька, Mašen'ka), is the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under pen name V. Sirin in 1926 by Russian-language publisher "Slovo".

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Mary McCarthy (author)

Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist.

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Maxim D. Shrayer

Shrayer, Maxim D. (Шраер, Максим Давидович; born June 5, 1967, Moscow, USSR) is a bilingual Russian-American author, translator, and literary scholar, and a professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College.

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Menton

Menton (written Menton in classical norm or Mentan in Mistralian norm; Mentone) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle (pronounced Shelley), born January 22, 1950 in Philadelphia, is a composer of contemporary concert music.

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Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne (Μνημοσύνη) is the goddess of memory in Greek mythology.

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Modern Library

The Modern Library is an American publishing company.

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Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library, an American publishing company owned by Random House.

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Montreux

Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Morris Bishop

Morris Gilbert Bishop (April 15, 1893 – November 20, 1973) was an American scholar, historian, biographer, essayist, translator, anthologist and versifier.

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Morza

Morza (plural morzalar; from Persian mirza) is a Princely title in Tatar states, such as Khanate of Kazan, Khanate of Astrakhan and others, and in Russia.

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Museum of Comparative Zoology

The Museum of Comparative Zoology, full name "The Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology", often abbreviated simply to "MCZ", is the zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Nabokovia

Nabokovia is a Neotropical genus of butterflies, named by Arthur Francis Hemming in honour of Vladimir Nabokov, who extensively studied the Polyommatinae subfamily.

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National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.

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Naturalization

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen in a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country.

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Neuengamme concentration camp

The Neuengamme concentration camp was a German concentration camp, established in 1938 by the SS near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

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New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.

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New World

The New World is one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas (including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda).

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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Nicolas Nabokov

Nicolas Nabokov (Николай Дмитриевич Набоков; – 6 April 1978) was a Russian-born composer, writer, and cultural figure.

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Notes on Prosody

The book Notes on Prosody by polyglot author Vladimir Nabokov compares differences in iambic verse in the English and Russian languages, and highlights the effect of relative word length in the two languages on rhythm.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution (p), officially known in Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution (Вели́кая Октя́брьская социалисти́ческая револю́ция), and commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising, the Bolshevik Revolution, or the Bolshevik Coup, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolsheviks and Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.

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Pale Fire

Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

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Pavel Milyukov

Pavel Nikolayevich Miliukov (p; 31 March 1943) was a Russian historian and liberal politician.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Peter Medak

Peter Medak (born Medák Péter, 23 December 1937) is a Hungarian-born film director and television director of British and American productions.

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Playboy

Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine.

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Pnin

Pnin is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957.

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Poems and Problems

Poems and Problems is a book by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Polyommatini

Polyommatini is a tribe of lycaenid butterflies in the subfamily of Polyommatinae.

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Polyommatus

Polyommatus is a diverse genus of butterflies.

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Poshlost

Poshlost or Poshlost' (p) is a Russian word for a particular negative human character trait or man-made thing or idea.

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Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin: "after this, therefore because of this") is a logical fallacy that states "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." It is often shortened simply to post hoc fallacy.

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Postmodern literature

Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Pseudolucia

Pseudolucia is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork

Pyotr Nikolayevich Shabelsky-Bork (Пётр Николаевич Шабельский-Борк, 5 May 1893 – 18 August 1952) was a Russian officer and writer, active in far-right and anti-Semitic politics in early 20th-century Europe, best known for the assassination of Vladimir Nabokov, father of the novelist of the same name, in Berlin on 28 March 1922.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.

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Reggio Emilia

Reggio Emilia (also; Rèz, Regium Lepidi) is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages (also called Romanic languages or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that began evolving from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.

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Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate

The Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate is a writer's house museum and park near Siverskaya, Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Oblast, that commemorates the most famous owner of the estate, Vladimir Nabokov; the Batovo and Vyra estates, also immortalized by Nabokov, are nearby.

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Russia Beyond

Russia Beyond, previously branded as Russia Beyond the Headlines or the RBTH, is a project/brand started by the TV-Novosti company owned by the Rossiya Segodnya which is a state news agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government, created by an Executive Order of the President of Russia on December 9, 2013.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russian literature

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus', the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.

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Russian Provisional Government

The Russian Provisional Government (Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii) was a provisional government of Russia established immediately following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire on 2 March 1917.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.

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Sex organ

A sex organ (or reproductive organ) is any part of an animal's body that is involved in sexual reproduction.

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Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple BlackWhile Temple occasionally used "Jane" as a middle name, her birth certificate reads "Shirley Temple".

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Signs and Symbols

"Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and first published, May 15, 1948 in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen (1958: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York).

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Sirin

Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl).

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Siversky

Siversky (Си́верский) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Gatchinsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Oredezh River.

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Slavic languages

The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) are the Indo-European languages spoken by the Slavic peoples.

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Speak, Memory

Speak, Memory is an autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov.

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SS Champlain

The SS Champlain was a cabin class ocean liner built in 1932 for the French Line by Chantiers et Ateliers de Saint-Nazaire, Penhoët.

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Stacy Schiff

Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American nonfiction author.

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Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

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Student activism

Student activism is work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.

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T. C. Boyle

Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948), is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Tatars

The Tatars (татарлар, татары) are a Turkic-speaking peoples living mainly in Russia and other Post-Soviet countries.

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The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by Thomas Pynchon, first published in 1966.

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The Defense

The Defense is the third novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during his emigration to Berlin, published in 1930.

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The Emigrants (Sebald novel)

The Emigrants (Die Ausgewanderten) is a 1992 collection of narratives by the German writer W. G. Sebald.

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The Gift (Nabokov novel)

The Gift (Дар, Dar) is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Luzhin Defence

The Luzhin Defence is a 2000 film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring John Turturro and Emily Watson.

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The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The Original of Laura

The Original of Laura is the incomplete novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which he was writing at the time of his death in 1977.

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The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a quarterly English language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is the first English language novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written from late 1938 to early 1939, and published in 1941 by New Directions Publishers.

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The Vane Sisters

"The Vane Sisters" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in March 1951.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Totalitarianism

Benito Mussolini Totalitarianism is a political concept where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to control every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Tripos

At the University of Cambridge, a Tripos (plural 'Triposes') is any of the undergraduate examinations that qualify an undergraduate for a bachelor's degree or the courses taken by an undergraduate to prepare.

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Troika (album)

Troika: Russia’s westerly poetry in three orchestral song cycles is a 2011 album of contemporary classical songs performed by soprano Julia Kogan, who also conceived the project.

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Ukrainian People's Republic

The Ukrainian People's Republic, or Ukrainian National Republic (abbreviated to УНР), was a predecessor of modern Ukraine declared on 10 June 1917 following the Russian Revolution.

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Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.

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Véra Nabokov

Véra Nabokov (Ве́ра Евсе́евна Набо́кова; 5 January 1902 – 7 April 1991) was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Visiting Mrs Nabokov

Visiting Mrs Nabokov is a 1993 collection of non-fiction writing by the British author Martin Amis.

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Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov

Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (Влади́мир Дми́триевич Набо́ков; 21 July 1870 – 28 March 1922) was a Russian criminologist, journalist, and progressive statesman during the last years of the Russian Empire.

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W. G. Sebald

Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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Wellesley College

Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college located west of Boston in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Wellesley, Massachusetts

Wellesley is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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White movement

The White movement (p) and its military arm the White Army (Бѣлая Армія/Белая Армия, Belaya Armiya), also known as the White Guard (Бѣлая Гвардія/Белая Гвардия, Belaya Gvardiya), the White Guardsmen (Белогвардейцы, Belogvardeytsi) or simply the Whites (Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of Anti-Communist forces that fought the Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War (1917–1922/3) and, to a lesser extent, continued operating as militarized associations both outside and within Russian borders until roughly the Second World War.

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Willi Glasauer

Willi Glasauer (born 9 December 1938 in Stříbro) is a German illustrator of books for children.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Woman's Hour

Woman's Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.

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Yuly Aykhenvald

Yuly Isayevich Aykhenvald, Aikhenvald, or Eichenwald (Ю́лий Иса́евич Айхенва́льд; 24 January 1872 – 17 December 1928) was a Russian Jewish literary critic who developed a native brand of Aestheticism and went down in history as "a Russian version of Walter Pater" (Vladimir Nabokov's assessment).

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith FRSL (born 25 October 1975) is a contemporary British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.

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Zinaida Gippius

Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (– 9 September 1945) was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism.

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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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20th century in literature

Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov

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