Proceeds of the sale will be donated to MaxLiteracy, a charity and educational initiative set up to stimulate literacy through the visual arts in partnership with museums, galleries and writers.
Michael, 77, who resides in south-west France, and is the second child and eldest son from Charlie Chaplin s fourth marriage to Oona O Neill, spoke to The Guardian in a candid interview.
Nabokov’s controversial 1955 novel, which was rejected by multiple American publishers, features multiple allusions to Edgar Allan Poe and references a real-life kidnapping.
He was the son of the most famous man in the world, a runaway hippy, a failed pop singer and then a goat farmer. Now, Michael J Chaplin is publishing the novel it took him decades to write