The book has an epigraph from Boswell's Life of Johnson in which Johnson insists that his favorite cat Hodge shall not be shot.
The book has an epigraph from Boswell's Life of Johnson in which Johnson insists that his favorite cat Hodge shall not be shot. The work was written between July 2 and 21, 1959, in New Wye, Appalachia, and just after its completion, Jakob Gradus accidentally shot its author, John Shade, while attempting to murder its editor. FTP, identify this poem in four cantos, or the novel which consists of that poem and Charles Kinbote's commentary on it, a work by Vladimir Nabokov.
The book has an epigraph from Boswell's Life of Johnson in which Johnson insists that his favorite cat Hodge shall not be shot.
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