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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Vladimir Nabokov
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Born: April 22, 1899
Died: July 2, 1977 (aged 78)
Bio: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
Known for:
- Lolita (1955)
- Pale Fire (1962)
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969)
- The Gift (1952)
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