That makes me very sad. My own copy of the revised annotated copy of Lolita has been a comforting companion for the last fourteen or so years; so well worn that it's cover has was lost.
--- On Thu, 5/7/09, NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU> wrote:
From: NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
Subject: [NABOKV-L] ANNC: Sad new about Alfred Appel Jr.
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 1:07 PM
Alfred Appel Jr., a former student of Nabokov and a Nabokovian whose edition of The Annotated Lolita shaped many readers' understanding of that novel, is dead. Appel played a major role in helping to establish the academic study of Nabokov in the 1970s, and he will be greatly missed. Here is his obituary from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/arts/07appel.html?_r=1&hpw
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