Lolita
by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used
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Luddenham, New South Wales, Australia
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When it was published in 1955, "Lolita" immediately became a cause c?l??bre 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.With an Introduction by Martin Amis "From the Hardcover edition."
Synopsis
Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, later translated by the author into Russian and published in 1958 in New York. The book is internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle-aged Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze.
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- Petes Loved Books (AU)
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- Title
- Lolita
- Author
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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