Nabokov’s wise, ironic, and elegant masterpiece. – A controversial love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. – This annotated edition assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. – Edited with a preface, introduction, and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.
“Fascinatingly detailed.” -Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause c??re because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. 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.
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/23/1991
Pages: 544
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.18w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780679727293
Language: English
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