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James joyce william faulkner thomas pynchon j d salinger gustave flaubert henrik ibsen. Feb 16, 2011 pnin is a professor of russian at an american college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized european colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar america. Vladimir nabokov was born on april 23, 1899, in st.
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