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08.17.2009
03:45 pm

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Art

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Vladimir Nabokov
John Bertram

Dangerous Minds pal and Nabokov afficiando supreme John Bertram was dissatisfied with the historial examples of Lolita cover art and is sponsoring a Lolita book cover design contest. He writes:

After perusing Dieter Zimmer?

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The Lolita Question: Who was the Real Humbert Humbert?

07.18.2009
01:09 pm

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Sex

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Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita

Henry Lanz, Stanford professor, Nabokov’s colleague and chess partner who “married the 14-year-old daughter of a friend.” Was he Humbert Humbert?

Over the chessboard, Lanz confided a dark secret that Nabokov told biographer Field: the memorably dapper professor led a double life. On weekends, he drove to the country to participate in orgies with ?

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