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First Vintage International Edition, January 1990 Copyright © 1973 by Article 3C Trust

under the Will of Vladimir Nabokov

All rights reserved under International and PanAmerican Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published, in hardcover, by McGrawHill Book Company, New York, in 1973. This edition published by arrangement with the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov.

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 18991977.

Strong opinions / Vladimir Nabokov. 1st Vintage international ed.

p. cm. — (Vintage international) Originally published, in hardcover, by Mc Ciiaw Hill Book

Company, New York, in 1973» — Verso t.p. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0679726098

1. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 18991977Interviews. 2. Authors, American — 20th centuryInterviews. Additional copyright notices appear under Acknowledgments.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The interview with Alvin Toffler originally appeared in Playboy magazine. Copyright © 1963 by Playboy. Reprinted by permission of Playboy Enterprises, Inc.

The interview with Herbert Gold and George A. Plimpton originally appeared in The Paris Review. Copyright © 1967 by The Paris Review. It is reprinted by permission of The Viking Press, Inc., and is included in the fourth volume of Writers at Work, published by The Viking Press, Inc.

Interview with Martin Esslin copyright © 1968 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.

Interview with Nicholas Garnham copyright © 1968 by Nicholas Garnham. Reprinted by permission.