The Annotated Lolita
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ISBN13: 9780679727293
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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 Review
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre 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.
"Fascinatingly detailed." -Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre 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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780679727293 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0679727299 |
| Weight | 0.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.15 x 0.90 x 7.98 In |
| List Price | $22.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 544 pages |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Published On | 1991-04-23 |
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