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Vladimir Nabokov: Wings of desire
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Vladimir Nabokov's obsession with butterflies is well known. But
rarely has the connection between his passion and his work been so
vividly demonstrated as in the unpublished afterword to his great
Russian novel, "The Gift". Now his son, Dmitri, has translated the
lost chapter for the first time. Opposite, we publish an extract.
Below, Brian Boyd explains its importance
No writer of Nabokov's stature, not even Goethe, has been a more
passionate student of the natural world or a more accomplished
scientist. No one has ever evoked with more enchantment how a child's
first passion for nature ...
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Graham Greene's Works Fondly Celebrated
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Dateline: LONDON British author Graham Greene smiles after being named Commander...hundred years after his birth, Graham Greene's writings still excite discussion...monumental biography, "The Life of Graham Greene," covering the years from 1955...
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Graham Greene's Unfinished Murder Mystery
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...Things Considered 08-26-2009 Graham Greene's Unfinished Murder Mystery...lovers. They are the words of Graham Greene, the great 20th century English...is not the work of the mature Graham Greene who wrote novels like "The Power...
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Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s.
Magazine article from: Style
; ...cough. He began to write . . . . Graham Greene, It's a Battlefield (1934...our greatest living writer," Graham Greene's place in literary history...entertainments," namely Peter Wolfe's Graham Greene, The Entertainer, published...
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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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Profile: Centennial anniversary of Graham Greene's birth
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; ...Profile: Centennial anniversary of Graham Greene's birth Host: SCOTT SIMON Time...2:00 PM SCOTT SIMON, host: Graham Greene was a novelist by vocation and...in 1991 at the age of 86. But Graham Greene's legacy resides and survives...
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Commentary: Graham Greene's stories as true today as when originally written
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...10-06-2004 Commentary: Graham Greene's stories as true today as when...BLOCK, host: The late writer Graham Greene was no armchair novel. Greene...Radio interview from 1969) Mr. GRAHAM GREENE: I've always had a certain...
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Graham Greene BOOKS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Herald Tribune 01-06-2009 Graham Greene BOOKS Byline: Pankaj Mishra The...Edition: 1 Section: FEATURES Graham Greene A Life in Letters Edited by Richard...completing "The Quiet American," Graham Greene confessed to Evelyn Waugh, his...
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Graham Greene: the ugly Englishman? (two biographies present differing views of the late author)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; Graham Greene thrived on stealth in his novels and...Sherry, an Englishman whose The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Two: 1939-1955 is an authorized...Michael Shelden, an American who wrote Graham Greene: The Man Within without the cooperation...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Ways of escape; Graham Greene.(Graham Greene, 100 years after his birth)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...sentimental and argumentative THE late Graham Greene was born 100 years ago on October...his politics seem ephemeral. Graham Greene is defined by his fiction, and...itself is lived most vividly in Graham Greene's own words. The Life of Graham...
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The Life of Graham Greene, vol. 1, 1904-1939.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE. NINETEEN pages into the vast first volume of his biography of Graham Greene, Norman Sherry asks his readers to consider a photograph of Mr Greene...
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Biographer reveals Graham Greene's life with bear necessity
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; GRAHAM GREENE, novelist, spy, adventurer and seducer...Ted is revealed in the new biography, Graham Greene; The Man Within, published today by...a teddy bear. So here's this tough Graham Greene, this dashing spy in one of the hotspots...
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