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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.
?This valuable collection of 16 essays by historians, philosophers, and literary scholars greatly benefits from careful arrangement under three general topics (the Progressive Era; positivism and the linguistic turn; the post-modern condition) and strong introductory essays by the editors.?-Choice
