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There's more than a grain of truth in the following statement by Richard Mabey: "I think we may be lucky that insects are...

Six-year old Alice Liddell dressed as a beggar-child  in a photograph by Lewis Carroll (1858) As everyone knows, Lewis Carrol...

I. Sadly, I have to confess my slight disappointment with Tanizaki's novel Chijin no Ai , often translated into English as...

I When the success of Lolita allowed him to live in the luxury he had been accustomed to in his childhood before the Russian...

Lolita , it is often said, is a beautiful book about an ugly thing. Nabokov writes in a manner so as to groom and demoralize his rea...