Vladimir Nabokov vs. George Eliot
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Vladimir Nabokov
1912 – 1977
Literature
United States
modernism
Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist, poet, and translator, acclaimed for novels such as Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada or Ardor, and for his stylistic mastery and wordplay. He was also a respected lepidopterist and literary critic.
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"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight."
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George Eliot
1819 – 1880
Journalism
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Realism
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, journalist and translator best known for realist novels such as Middlemarch, Adam Bede, and Silas Marner.
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"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond t…"
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Connections
George Eliot was influenced by Vladimir Nabokov
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