LOLITA. ;Movie Tie-In Starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon; Director Stanley Kubrick by Nabokov, Vladimir - 1955

USA: G.P. Putnam Pub., 1955. Book. Very Good to Fine. Hardcover. 11th Edition By This Publisher.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inventory = B ; 319 pages. 545 grams >> " "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 exhilaration-along with heartbreak and mordant wit-abound 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 love-love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation." >>DUSTJACKET = Creasing; 1'2" x 2" piece missing from top at spine.BOOK = Cover scuffing; corner wear to covers..