Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0006770, Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:05:00 -0700

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VN Bibliography: Miriam Rothschild's new Butterfly Book
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From: "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:20 PM
Subject: Butterfly Book


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> I would like to call your attention to a book by Miriam Rothschild (one of
> the naturalists produced by that family) "Butterfly Cooing Like a Dove"
> (Doubleday 1991). It reminds me of Nabokov's plan to do a history of the
> butterfly in art and contains a chapter on "Nabokov and the gilded fly."
> Doves and butterflies are traced through art, science and literature.
Should
> charm any Nabokophile.
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> Carolyn Kunin
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