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Query: Percy Elphinstone in Lolita
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[EDNOTE. DBJ forwards this query from Andrew Fippinger. SES]
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> Does anyone know the real identity (if there is one) of Percy
> Elphinstone from Lolita? I can't find his name or either of his
> "books" (A Vagabond in Italy and Venice Revisited) in the New York
> Public Library, the Library of Congress, or the British Museum. Was
> Nabokov playing games when he claimed that Elphinstone was a real
> figure?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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> Does anyone know the real identity (if there is one) of Percy
> Elphinstone from Lolita? I can't find his name or either of his
> "books" (A Vagabond in Italy and Venice Revisited) in the New York
> Public Library, the Library of Congress, or the British Museum. Was
> Nabokov playing games when he claimed that Elphinstone was a real
> figure?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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