Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian-American writer, poet, and entomologist, one of the twentieth century's greatest prose stylists, who wrote in two languages — Russian and English. He emigrated from Russia after the revolution, lived in Europe, then in the United States, where he taught literature and wrote Lolita — a novel finished in 1953 and, after several publisher rejections, first published in Paris in 1955. The book caused a scandal, drew accusations of pornography, and at the same time brought its author worldwide fame as an unmatched stylist working at the edge of the most difficult subjects.
Books in Livria
- Lolita
Why does a confession persuade us even when the subject is a crime? Humbert Humbert — a clever, well-read, charming man pushing forty — tells the story of his life in prose so elegant that, in the opening pages…