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JK Rowling names her 10 favourite books - number one is controversial
07 Feb 2026 10:34 GMT
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The world-famous author of a children’s book series has named … .
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10. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
This 1955 novel follows a French literature …
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Don’t spoil this devastating novel by reading too much about it first
04 Feb 2026 05:22 GMT
… grain of contemporary publishing and marketing tactics: a novel published without a clear … the disappearance of her husband.
Author Michael Mohammed Ahmad.Anna Kucera … re-reading, Vladimir Nabokov famously argued that “one cannot read a book: one …
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5 Classic Novels You Need To Try To Read Again
02 Feb 2026 23:56 GMT
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Vladimir Nabokov’s "Pale Fire"
The Author's … . However, because Moby Dick was published 175 years ago, it is … its time when it was published in 1949, and it was … ;s most famous novel is the definition of a book that you should …
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Lolita is harmful filth. Or is it a satirical masterpiece?
06 Feb 2026 22:42 GMT
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita has been … house that specialised in publishing books that would likely be … everyone dies, including the author Humbert Humbert (a pseudonym … demands that this “disgusting” novel be removed from “classic literature …
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Visions of Past and Future: A Review of “Zion Square”
06 Feb 2026 19:52 GMT
… I would summarize the book as a Russian-Ukrainian-American … Putin by Russian-American poet Vladimir Nabokov (“First Name and Patronymic”). … ” to witness the humanist author Thomas Mann’s (perhaps … as well as the cartoon book, “Yiddische Yoga: OYsanas for …
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Good Week/Bad Week: Peeni Henare gets to leave politics and Shane Jones channels Lady Whistledown
06 Feb 2026 03:27 GMT
… mutual interest in the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. How was he to … an obsessive passion for a book about paedophilic desire was a …
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Epstein received ‘not a girl not yet a woman’ photos from friend in Sydney
06 Feb 2026 01:03 GMT
… famous novel about lust for an underage girl by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov …
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When keyboards are key
05 Feb 2026 12:26 GMT
… find at Harvard’s rare-book library: two typescript pages, … Waste Land”; several drawings by Vladimir Nabokov; a corrected typescript page from … years later, a Sperry Rand booklet entitled “How to Be … , began to “write” his novels via dictation: first to Mary …
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The Epstein files and NZ: Managers, models and the Kiwi billionaire
05 Feb 2026 11:54 GMT
… the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, a critically acclaimed but deeply controversial book … Irons. He discussed the novel with friends and recommended it … to learn more about its author. In 2009, he emailed … : “I am funding an author, who is the biographer of …
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A Modern Plutarch?
04 Feb 2026 14:05 GMT
… eight books of original essays by the same author.
Meyers … by Fitzgerald) that the novelistic talent is superior to … devastating evaluation that the novelist “has been given … demonstrates in “Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov,” a similar pattern developed …