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Nabokov's Butterflies: Uncollected and Unpublished Writings
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782
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Abstract
Nabokov's writings on butterflies, from his autobiography, his scientific papers and drafts for the unfinished Butterflies of Europe, his literary references to butterflies in fiction and verse, his letters and his butterfly drawings, scientific and playful.
Co-edited and with introductions, explanatory notes, and lists of butterflies Nabokov named, and those named after him, by Brian Boyd and nature-writer and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle.
Also published by Allen Lane, Penguin UK (2000) and in paperback by Penguin (2001).