Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), it took him fifty-six days (eight weeks) to write Lolita:

After three years of unsuccessful investigations Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) finally tracks down Clare Quilty to Pavor Manor, a wooden house on Grimm Road:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), he spent the night that preceded the murder of Clare Quilty (who lives not far from Parkington) in Insomnia Lodge:

On Demonia (aka Antiterra, Earth’s twin planet on which Ada, 1969, is set) Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary (1857) is known as Floeberg’s Ursula:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), Miss Phalen broke her hip in Savannah, Ga., on the very day he arrived in Ramsdale and moved in the Haze house:

Describing his life with Ada in his old age, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions his old valet, Stepan Nootkin:

According to Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969), Dr Fitzbishop (a surgeon in the Kalugano hospital where Van recovers from the wound received in a pistol duel with Captain Tapper) is a poshlyak:

In VN’s novel Ada (1969) Van criticizes Ada’s version of a poem by Coppée and compares Ada to a Russian nobleman who chucked his coachman to the wolves, and then fell out of his sleigh:

According to Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969), the merest touch of Ada’s finger or mouth produced not only a more potent but essentially different delicia than the slowest ‘winslow’ of the most sophisticated young harlot:

Offering Ada a ride in the park, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions two horses, Pardus and Peg:

‘Now let’s go out for a breath of crisp air,’ suggested Van. ‘I’ll order Pardus and Peg to be saddled.’