Case History Of A Wikipedia Page: Nabokov’s 'Lolita' Since 2001, the Wikipedia entry on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita has been edited 2,303 times. It's a popular entry, too: of approximately 750,000 Wiki articles out there, it ranks at 2,075 in traffic.
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posted by sweetkid
on Aug 23, 2011 -
36 comments
The
wait is over! Random House will
publish Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novel,
The Original of Laura: (Dying Is Fun), on November 3, 2009, with "removable facsimiles of the index cards" on which the novel was written. As
previously discussed on MetaFilter, Dmitri Nabokov's decision to publish the unfinished novel against his father's wishes has been controversial, but the BBC has already
called it the "literary event of 2009".
posted by Houyhnhnm
on Apr 29, 2009 -
58 comments
