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Nabokov’s Father as “an Authority on Dickens”: Part Two

This post has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read her previous posts here and here. This post is in two parts. Read the first part here. The next article was written with an academic purpose, and aimed to give a...

Nabokov’s Father as “an Authority on Dickens”: Part One

This post has been contributed by Renata Goroshkova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Read her previous posts here and here. This post is in two parts. Read the second part here. Vladimir Nabokov writes to Edmund Wilson in a letter of 1950: “My father had...

The Reception of Charles Dickens’s Christmas Stories of the 1840s in Russia up to 1917

Contributed by Renata Goroshkova, a teaching assistant from St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She is now finishing her dissertation on Dickens’s Christmas stories of the 1840s. Charles Dickens has always been highly popular in Russia. His works appeared in Russia as translated versions or recasts...
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