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...The new book, a queasy reimagining of Lolita set in the Dutch countryside, is sure to make waves....
...Kate Moss is a stalwart figure of the inner circle, alongside Naomi Campbell, Demi Moore and Lily Allen, who slept on his sofa when she was still a precocious teen....
...In Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation, the ageing ruler seeks to find meaning in his mighty empire and holds the young adventurer hostage until he can fulfil that need....
...According to Dr Lucy Allen, a medievalist at Cambridge, much of the humour in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is derived from jokes about violence....
...Twentieth Century Dictionary by Chambers; The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop; Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino; Middlemarch by George Eliot; The New American Poetry 1945-1960 by Donald Allen...
...Donleavy’s The Ginger Man (1955) and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955). But nothing could prepare the reading public for Naked Lunch, published by Paris-based Olympia Press in 1959....
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