Title:
Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov.
Author:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977, author.
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Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1997.
©1955
Call Number:
PS3527.A15 L6 1997
Abstract:
The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl. Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story 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. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
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Edition:
Second Vintage International edition.
50th anniversary edition.
ISBN:
9780679723165
9780613706254
9780329846480
Series:
Vintage international
Vintage International (Series)
Physical Description:
317 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published, in hardcover, in France by Olympia Press in 1955 and in the United States by the Putnam, Publishing Group, Inc., in 1958"--Title page verso.
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