Lolita (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Vladimir Nabokov

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UPC:
9780679410430
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
3/9/1993
Release Date:
3/9/1993
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
Language:
english
Edition:
5th Printing
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When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause clbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.

Awe and exhilarationalong with heartbreak and mordant witabound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on lovelove as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. With an introduction by Martin Amis.


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