Copyright © 2016 by Alex Beam
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Overlook Press for permission to reprint excerpts from Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Walter Arndt. Translation copyright © 1972 by Walter Arndt. Originally published in 1992 by The Overlook Press, New York, NY (www.overlookpress.com). Reprinted by permission of The Overlook Press. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Name: Beam, Alex, author.
Title: The feud : Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the end of a beautiful friendship / Alex Beam.
Description: New York : Pantheon, 2016. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016019850 (print). LCCN 2016007056 (ebook).
ISBN 9781101870228 (hardback) ISBN 9781101870235 (ebook).
Subjects: LCSH: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977—Friends and associates. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977—Criticism and interpretation. Wilson, Edmund, 1895–1972—Friends and associates. Wilson, Edmund, 1895–1972—Criticism and interpretation.
BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
Classification: LCC PS3527.A15 (print). LCC PS3527.A15 Z615 2016 (ebook). DDC 818/.5209—dc23.
LC record available at: lccn.loc.gov/2016019850.
Ebook ISBN 9781101870235
Cover illustration: Vladimir Nabokov: Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images; Edmund Wilson: Granger, New York City
Cover design by Kelly Blair
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