From a preview of the text Lolita there are a couple things to learn about Vladimir Nabokov. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1899. After studying at Cambridge he launched his literary career in Berlin and Paris. After he moved to the United States in the 1940s he achieved an acclaimed named and extraordinary relationship as not just an author but poet, critic, and translator. A quote on the back of the book from John Updike can also give us insight to how respected his name was by other literary geniuses, "I'd never seen writing quite like this before, writing so precise and witty, an...

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