{"title":"Vladimir Nabokov","description":"\u003cp\u003eA selection of works from the Russian-American novelist, poet, and translator Vladimir Nabokov. Featuring some of his most famous works, including several with unique dust-jackets by artist Robert Andrew Parker, and Nabokov's translation and commentary of Pushkin's \u003cem\u003eEugene Onegin\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"experiments-literary-journal-1950s-new-york-97306","title":"Opyty. [Experiments].","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eExperiments was the first post-war Russian emigré literary journal, printed in New York between 1953 and 1958 with a total of nine editions. 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