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Judging Books by Their Covers
26 Jan 2025 00:59 GMT
… the contents of a novel.
A good book cover will signify … extremely famous publishers and brand the author's novel with the publisher'; … condemnation of pedophilia, the author, Vladimir Nabokov, first instructed publishers to never include a picture …
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Cicada Books combats censorship in new banned book club
22 Jan 2025 13:42 GMT
… Jan. 14, opening with Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.”
Meeting on the … banning of books.”
Helbert, who opened the bookstore alongside her … has now started four different book clubs. Starting with Tasty … Together.
As Banned Together Books continues into the new …
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Jonathan Rosenbaum on the 6,000-Film DVD Collection He Sold to a Pediatrician, ‘The Brutalist,’ and His New Book
17 Jan 2025 23:05 GMT
… the canon has been published everywhere from Cahiers du … , Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Vladimir Nabokov, Ahmad Jamal, Adam Curtis, … maintains himself. He’s published books on Orson Welles, Abbas … essay on Ingmar Bergman, published in The New York Times …
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Nabokov's Lolita Inscribed with Butterfly: Rare Book of the Week
13 Jan 2025 10:55 GMT
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial 1955 novel Lolita, inscribed … latest Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana … particularly unusual inscription.
Published by The Olypmia Press … , and Adrienne Rich. Vladimir Nabokov described James as …
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Discover Why 'The Raven,' Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative Poem About a Distraught Lover and a Talking Bird, Remains an American Classic
29 Jan 2025 10:28 GMT
… both the work and its author to instant fame.
Poe, … He’d already penned and published short stories like “The Murders … it was printed with the author’s own byline, and … many modern works, including Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel, Lolita, and Bernard Malamud …
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My View: Books need not be banned in the United States
02 Jan 2025 16:48 GMT
… classics, award-winning books, and popular novels. I am pleased … (“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”), Vladimir Nabokov (“Lolita”), J. D. Salinger … educator and children’s book author Theodore Geisel (aka Dr … much-banned Toni Morrison novel, “Beloved.” It may …
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Book Review: 100 years of magical thinking
01 Jan 2025 16:48 GMT
… interests of the author. He is drawn to books that challenge the … chapters, he focuses on individual novels: Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf’s … acts: Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison).
As a …
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This Library Is Exhibiting Some Of The Greatest Books That Don’t Exist
30 Dec 2024 11:47 GMT
… voluminous speculation. All of the books were created by the bibliophile … disclosure: My novel, Lighter Than Vanity, has only been published in Russian … -Victor in Gargantua and Pantagruel. Vladimir Nabokov is represented by An Abbreviated …
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Vladimir Nabokov on how to boil an egg — and other recipes
24 Nov 2024 05:27 GMT
… the act of cooking. Consider Vladimir Nabokov’s recipe for boiled eggs … given a copy of this book when they leave school so … , and what you can afford”.
Vladimir Nabokov in 1967
GISELE FREUND… very strong cup of tea.
Vladimir Nabokov’s Eggs à la Nabocoque …
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‘These are magic books’: bringing imaginary works of literature to life
11 Dec 2024 08:23 GMT
… novel The Name of the Rose). The extremely rare collection of books … – what would Hemingway’s first novel look like, had it not … murdered by Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita – though, as … and cats – as per the novel by Terry Pratchett. (The replica …