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So Nabokov read the complete works of Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Flaubert between the ages of 14 and 15. Probably each in their respective original languages. Hu

by defen 9y ago

So Nabokov read the complete works of Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Flaubert between the ages of 14 and 15. Probably each in their respective original languages. Humbling. Or he's misremembering his childhood :)