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Re:Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee by maehwasu on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:34AM (#19569589)
Didn’t Nabokov have live-in English tutors from a young age?

The Russian aristocracy was extremely multilingual.

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Re:Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee by defen on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:06AM (#19569712)
Yes. He had read a significant amount of English literature by age 15, including the complete works of Shakespeare.

http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations

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Re:Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee by tomcam on Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:16AM (#19569977)
But a fair number of people had similar upbringings without that kind of fluency. Plus, English was slightly passé to that cohort.
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Re:Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee by erikbye on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:05AM (#19571146)
Nabokov wrote and read English before Russian.
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Re:Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee by tomcam on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:10AM (#19572475)
Did not know that!
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