Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a...