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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

Vintage (Mar 13, 1989)
9780679723165
| Paperback
336 pages | 132 x 202 mm | English
Dewey 813.54
LC Classification PS3527.A15 .L6 1989
LC Control No. 88040511

Genre

  • Erotic Fiction
  • Love Stories

Subject

  • Drama
  • Girls/ Fiction
  • Literature
  • Middle Aged Men
  • Middle-aged Men/ Fiction

Plot

Awe and exhiliration--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.