Vladimir Nabokov wrote some of the greatest novels of the 20th century. Whether it be Lolita, The Gift, Pale Fire or one of his dozen or so lesser masterpieces, reading one of his books means spending hours, possibly days, in thrall to the merest whim of a perfect stranger. After finishing one (or perhaps several) ...
# 1 Detroit Red Wings vs. # 8 Nashville Predators When the regular season came to a close, the Detroit Red Wings finished 24 points higher in the standings than eight seed Nashville Predators. Despite the large point spread between the teams, the difference between these two teams isn’t as great as the numbers might ...
Vladimir Nabokov’s novel The Gift was the author’s last work to be written in Russian. Nabokov wrote it while living in Berlin in the mid -to-late 1930 and much like his protagonist, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, had a love affair with Russian literature. It is Russian literature that is ultimatelty what this novel is about. Moreover, Fyodor ...
Lester Burnham, aged forty-two years, underage love fascination named Angela Hayes. Humbert Humber, estimated age forty-five years, underage love fixation named Dolores Haze. The two male figures named above are from American Beauty and Lolita respectively. They are both the main characters throughout their respective genre’s, and both project what they think is the apex ...
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