Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679723165)

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Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita

$17.00
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.

"The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind."--The New Yorker

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.

Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN-10: 0679723161
ISBN-13: 9780679723165
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Language: English
Published: 03/13/1989
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.21w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 97
By Vladimir Nabokov
By Vladimir Nabokov
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. After studying French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, he launched his literary career in Berlin and Paris. In 1940 he moved to the United States, here he achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. Lolita, arguably his most famous novel, was first published, by the Olympia Press, Paris, on September 15, 1955, and became a controversial success. Nabokov died in Montreux Switzerland in 1977.

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