Lolita, Nabokov's darkly comic 1955 bestseller about a European professor's sexual obsession with a precocious American twelve-year-old girl and the murder his passion for her drives him to commit.
Pale Fire, the much-praised 1962 novel by Nabokov that consists of a 999 line poem by the late poet John Shade, together with the odd foreword and scholarly commentary of an unhinged Shade scholar.
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (1972) explores various social, cultural, and scientific developments in Berlin.....
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