In a novel by this author, an imprisoned king finds an old toy box in a closet and then the door to a secret passage out. That novel by this man consists of a poem beginning "
In a novel by this author, an imprisoned king finds an old toy box in a closet and then the door to a secret passage out. That novel by this man consists of a poem beginning "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain," by John Shade, and crazy (*) commentary on it, by Charles Kinbote. In another of his novels, the author of The Enchanted Hunters takes a girl to the Duk Duk Ranch. That lascivious playwright, Clare Quilty, is shot by a man who calls the title girl "light of my life, fire of my loins." For 10 points, name this author who created Humbert Humbert and wrote Pale Fire and Lolita.
In a novel by this author, an imprisoned king finds an old toy box in a closet and then the door to a secret passage out.
Vladimir [Vladimirovich] Nabokov 