Publishing Lolita

Nabokov endured a rocky relationship with the first publisher of Lolita, Maurice Girodias of the Olympia Press in Paris. In this letter Nabokov outlines his plans for preparing an American edition of the controversial novel.


Vladimir Nabokov. Typed letter to Maurice Girodias, December 14, 1956.

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