492 Nabokov Noir (with Luke Parker)
The History of Literature
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The Biggest Break in Your Life
His family was very, very wealthy. He and his younger brother then went to Cambridge. His father had been imprisoned by the Russian Tsarist regime but he managed to escape in 1922. And so this leaves him basically as the kind of maybe not quite the head of the family,. But suddenly is the oldest son that puts this kind of responsibility on him.
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