The Annotated Lolita

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780679727293 Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 1991 Publisher: Random House USA Inc Pages: 544 Series: Vintage

Description: Nabokov's wise, ironic, and elegant masterpiece. A?Â? A controversialA‚ love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.A‚ A?Â?A‚ This annotated edition assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. A?Â?A‚ 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 cA?©lA?¨bre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. Awe and exhilarationA?along with heartbreak and mordant witA?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 loveA?love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

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