Re: Lolita's Story To Be Printed in US

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>P.S. If you liked Chekov try some Katherine Mansfield. Some of it is very
>good but some of it is magnificent.
>


Hear, hear!!!!

  
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>> I'm reserving judgment on the Lolita rip-off.  Similar ripoffs have been
>> done before with some success (I've heard good things about John
>> Gardner's Grendel, and a stage version of such a rip off would be
>> Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which was wonderful).
>> 


....and on the topic of great rip-offs (or is that knock-offs).... How about
WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys?

Cheers,

Paul

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