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"Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity t..." — Hallgrimur Helgason

Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that it creates this great tension between the story being told and the style that it's written in. And it's just amazing that one of the best novels in English was written by a Russian.
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