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  title info:
    title: Finding Nabokov
    sub title: a literary companion
  name:
    name part: Gaffney, Larry
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 203 pages ; 26 cm
  abstract: ""Vladimir Nabokov was one of the most fascinating literary figures of the 20th century. Known primarily as the author of Lolita, he was at first scorned as a pornographer, but eventually hailed as the creator of a masterpiece. A Russian born into wealth and privilege, he lost everything at 15 and was forced into exile by the Bolshevik Revolution. Battling poverty in Berlin and married to a Jewish woman, he fled first to Paris and then then to America, always barely one step ahead of the Nazis. His career spanned 50 years of writing brilliant novels, teaching at Wellesley and Cornell, and establishing himself as a respected scientist in the field of lepidoptery while working at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. This work is a guide to Nabokov's life and his many achievements. The encyclopedic format invites browsing through the alphabetically arranged entries, from ACADEME, that rarefied realm of colleges and universities where Nabokov's most biting satires are afoot, to ZOORLAND, a made-up totalitarian country so fiendishly devoted to equality that the arts are banned because they give talented people opportunities to rise above the mass of commoners."-Provided by publisher"--
  note: Larry Gaffney.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
      name part: 1899-1977
    genre: Encyclopedias
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
      name part: 1899-1977
    genre: Miscellanea
  classification: PS3527.A15 Z459 2025
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9781476691343
  identifier: 1476691347
  identifier: 9781476650784
  identifier: 2024049743
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR
    record creation date: 241116
    record change date: 20250802185252.6
    record identifier: in00005653922
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng