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395 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (A Best of HOL Episode)

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Lolida by Vladimir Nebokov

lolida is Vladimir nebokov's masterpiece of a novel. One critic called it a satire on sex, a mirror of human frailties. Another says that it was a joke on our national cant about youth. We've had several guests on the history of literature who have given us different looks at this novel as it closes in on 70 years of age. And we gather some high lights from those interviews to day on theHistory of Literature podcast.

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