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- ↑ Clark, Edwin (1927-03-20). "M. Anet Writes a Novel for the Urbane; ARIANE. By Claude Anet. Translated from the French by Guy Chapman. 279 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ↑ "Ariane, A Russian Girl". New York Review Books. 2023-08-01. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ↑ Johnson, D. Barton (Winter 1985). "The Books Reflected in Nabokov's Eye". The Slavic and East European Journal. 29 (4): 393–404. doi:10.2307/307461. JSTOR 307461.
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