One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, <b>Vladimir Nabokov</b> was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Stanford, Wellesley, Cornell, and Harvard.  In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.<br><br><b>Jeremy Irons</b> plays the role of
When Lewis Luby (Jeremy Irons) comes to, late at night in an Italian hospital, he finds himself lying under the monstrous big toe of God. Surely there has been some mistake: Luby, who has never for one moment believed in the immortality of the soul, canno...[SEE MORE]