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{{Short description|1969 poetry book}}{{Infobox book | image = Poems and Problems.jpg | author = [[Vladimir Nabokov]] | pub_date = 1969 | publisher = [[McGraw-Hill]] | caption = First edition }} {{italic title}} '''''Poems and Problems''''' ({{ISBN|0-07-045724-7}}) is a book by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] published in 1969. It consists of 39 [[poetry|poems]] originally written in [[Russian language|Russian]] and translated by Nabokov, 14 poems written in [[English language|English]], and 18 [[chess problem]]s. One of the 39 poems originally written in Russian, "Lilith," in 1928, can be looked at as a foreshadowing of his 1955 novel ''[[Lolita]]''. However, in the author's notes, Nabokov states that "Intelligent readers will abstain from examining this impersonal fantasy for any links with my later fiction," and that the poem was written "...to amuse a friend."
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