Describing his visit to Ramsdale in September 1952 and meeting in the hotel lobby with Mrs. Chatfield, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a wedding party, Murphy-Fantasia:
Describing his novel Letters from Terra, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions the Volga region and similar watersheds:
At the end of VN's novel Lolita (1955) Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character) asks Lolita not let other fellows touch her and not talk to strangers:
Describing his visit to Ramsdale in September 1952 and meeting in the hotel lobby with Mrs. Chatfield, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a moon-faced waiter who was arranging with stellar care fifty sherries on a round tray for a wedding party:
Describing his visit to Ramsdale in September 1952 and meeting in the hotel lobby with Mrs. Chatfield, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a moon-faced waiter who was arranging with stellar care fifty sherries on a round tray for a wedding party:
Describing his visit to Ramsdale in September 1952 and meeting in the hotel lobby with Mrs. Chatfield, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a group of ladies who with mille grâces were taking leave of each other after a luncheon party:
When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) revisits Ramsdale in September 1952, Mrs. Chatfield tells him that she disapproves of early marriages and mentions her daughter Phyllis:
Revisiting Ramsdale in September 1952, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) has an appointment with Mr. Windmuller, the lawyer:
In the Russian Lolita (1967) 'Vivian Darkbloom' (the name of Clare Quilty’s coauthor, anagram of Vladimir Nabokov) becomes Vivian Damor-Blok and a biography she has written, ‘My Cue,’ becomes Kumir moy (“My Idol”):