Russian author Vladimir Nabokov (of "Lolita" fame") grew up in a trilingual family. Russian, English and French were all spoken in his household, and he learned to read and write in English before Russian. Twenty-two years before "Lolita" (1955), Nabokov published his Russian translation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," in which he renamed the title character Anya.

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