About This Book
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. With shattering immediacy, Nabokov takes us...
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5h 6m
slow reader
180 WPM
3h 40m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 37m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 55,000 wordsπ
8 days at 30 min/day
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4 h 4 min
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