Link To The Gift
In Chapter Two of The Gift, Nabokov lets Shchyogolev outline the thematic premise of The Enchanter, namely the stratagem of an ephebe to marry a mother in order to gain access to the daughter. The Gift was written between 1933 and 1938, before The Enchanter.
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