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The Patron Saint of Butterflies earned the award for the Young Adult Book of the Year by the Northeast Independent Booksellers Association and was a Top Ten Pick for 2008 by Amazon.com. [2] The novel was selected to be a Book Sense Pick and a Banks Children Book of the Year Selection. [3]
The latter section includes previously unpublished writings by Nabokov, namely "Father’s Butterflies: Second Addendum to The Gift " (translated by Dmitri Nabokov) and "The Butterflies of Europe", notes concerning an unfinished book about the lepidoptera of Europe. The book also contains an addendum compiled by Pyle that lists butterflies ...
Frohawk was encouraged in his work by Lord Walter Rothschild, who later bought his water-colours of butterflies. [2] His major butterfly works include the two volume Natural History of British Butterflies (1924) and The Complete Book of British Butterflies (1934). In 1927, a need for money forced him to sell his butterfly collection to Lord ...
Books sold well, with The Butterfly achieving Cain's second-highest hard-cover total - 45,000 copies. [24] Hoopes adds that, by the time The Butterfly was completed, Cain "was probably the most reprinted author in the country- over one and a half million of his books had been sold…in hard-cover and paperback editions…"
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While many of Nabokov’s writings refer to butterflies, they achieve their strongest literary treatment in this short story, and in Speak, Memory, The Gift, and Ada.In this case, Pilgram is a dreamer and lives in his inner world, and is eventually overwhelmed by his obsession.
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Upon release 12 Books That Changed the World received criticism from reviewers who noted that several items in the list were not considered books. [4] Others also criticized the list as focusing on works put out by white British men, as well as the length of the list. [5] [6] Miles Kingston noted that the list was absent of any foreign texts. [7]