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Vladimir Nabokov literary criticism

Vladimir Nabokov literary criticism Hungerford, Amy. “Lecture 5 – Vladimir Nabokov Lolita.” The first of three Yale Univ. video lectures on Nabokov. “Lecture 6 – Vladimir Nabokov. On Modernism and Nabokov’s relation to earlier writers T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust. "Lecture 7 – Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (cont).” Yale Open Courses, ENGL 291,…

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The Straight Dope

The Straight Dope Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr was born to Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Sr. and Katherine Frances Bennett Pynchon on May 8, 1937 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. They moved to East Norwich when Thomas, Jr was just a child. His father became town supervisor of Oyster Bay and later an industrial surveyor.…

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