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The first twelve chapters describe nabokovs remembrance of his youth in a quasiaristocratic family living in prerevolutionary saint petersburg and their country estate vyra near siverskaya. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberalminded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangerson and of grand old houses in st petersburg and the surrounding countryside. Morris offers a comprehensive reading of nabokov s russian and english poetry, until now a neglected facet of his oeuvre. The main characters of this fiction, literature story are humbert humbert, lolita. Nabokov s revised and extended edition appeared in 1966. The late vladimir nabokov always did things his way, and his classic autobiography is no exception.
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