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For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.

The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume...'ever once fails to instruct and stimulate.