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Vladimir Nabokov : the American years

by Brian Boyd

This second volume of a critical biography follows the novelist's life and work from his arrival in the United States in 1940. It chronicles his subsequent literary career and personal history through to his later years.

Accession 15215 ISBN 069106797X Publisher Princeton University Press
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