Monday, February 20, 2012

First Lines: Vladimir Nabokov - Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle


'All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike,' says a great Russian writer in the beginning of a famous novel (Anna Arkadievitch Karenina, transfigured into English by R. G. Stonelower, Mount Tabor Ltd., 1880).

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