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Bearing back, ceaselessly, with a new set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Lectures on Russian Literature, a compilation of lectures on Russian literature, focusing on six writers. The lectures were edited for publication by Fredson Bowers and copublished in 1981 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Bruccoli Clark. The book has gone through four other editions. It is A53 in the 1986 bibliography.

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Reading on with a new set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Lectures on Literature, a compilation of ten lectures focusing on one masterwork each from seven European writers. The lectures were edited for publication by Fredson Bowers and copublished in 1980 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Bruccoli Clark. The book has gone through four other editions. It is A51 in the 1986 bibliography.

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Next up for the draft pages of the revised and updated bibliography: Nabokov’s Congeries, a collection of 33 works and excerpts from works, edited by Page Stegner. It was published by The Viking Press in 1968 and then retitled in paperback in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. Three sets of works appeared here for the first time in book form: the story “Terra Incognita”, the revised translation of eight “Eugene Onegin” stanzas, and the essay “Reply to My Critics”. It is A39 in the 1986 bibliography.

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Continuing with the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Strong Opinions, Nabokov’s collection of 22 interviews, 11 letters, nine articles, and five lepidoptera papers and book reviews first published in 1973 by McGraw-Hill. Since then, there have been five more editions in English. Strong Opinions was A44 in the 1986 bibliography.

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Another set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: A posthumous compilation of Nabokov’s dramatic works and essays on the theater, The Man from the USSR and Other Plays, was jointly published in 1984 by Bruccoli Clark and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. It is A55 in the 1986 bibliography.

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