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| When it was published in 1955, <i>Lolita</i> immediately became a cause celebre 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.<p>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. <i>Lolita</i> 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. |
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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Vladimir Nabokov |
| Fiction Subgenre: |
Conflicts & Dualities |
| Fiction Genre: |
Drama |
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Professional Reviews
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"In recent fiction no lover has thought of his beloved with so much tenderness, no woman has been so lovingly evoked....It is one of the few examples of rapture in modern writing....", "It is a distinguished novel.", Esquire: "Lolita is a fine book, a distinguished book--all right then--a great book.", New York Times Book Review: "The first time I read LOLITA I thought it was one of the funniest books I'd ever come upon. (This was in the abbreviated version published in the 'Anchor Review' last year.) The second time I read it, uncut, I thought it was the saddest. I mention this personal reaction only because LOLITA is one of those occasional books which arrive swishing a long tail of opinion and reputation which can knock the unwary reader off his feet.", Washington Post Book World: "Passions never burned so feverishly as in this, the great and perverse love story of our times.", Angell, Roger, New Yorker: "Nabokov's elusiveness...is not just playful. Forever changing sides and withholding judgment, he has contrived to forestall both our outrage at his nasty hero and our contemptuous dismissal of his trivial, complicit Juliet. His irony is never patronizing or angry....For all its glittering distractions and diversions, this is a love story, after all--an unexpected grand romance, with a poignance and conviction that match anything in our old box of American valentines." |
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Book Editions
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- Audio - Compact Disc
- Unabridged
- April 19, 2005
- Random House
- 6"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.65 lbs.
- 9780739322062
, - Digital
- Random House Audio
- 9780739333211
, - Hardcover
- Reissue
- 335
- May 01, 1993
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1"(d), 1.05 lbs.
- 9780679410430
, - Paperback
- January 01, 1991
- Editorial Anagrama
- 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 0.9 lbs.
- 9788433920386
, - Paperback
- November 01, 1983
- Dramatist's Play Service
- 7.5"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.25 lbs.
- 9780822206835
, - Paperback
- Reissue
- 317
- March 01, 1989
- Vintage Books
- 8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.6 lbs.
- 9780679723165
, - Paperback
- 213
- December 01, 1997
- Vintage Books
- 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.6 lbs.
- 9780679772552
, - Paperback
- 334
- June 30, 2002
- Ediciones Huracan
- 7.25"(h) x 4.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.45 lbs.
- 9789592540637
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First Line
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| Publisher's Note: |
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. |
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