Format:
Book
Author:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
Title:
Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov ; with an introduction by Martin Amis.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.
Description:
xxxi, 335 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
When it was published in 1955, Lolita 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. 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.
Series:
Everyman's library ; 133
Everyman's library ; no. 133.
Subjects:
Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
Girls -- Fiction.
Sexual ethics -- Fiction.
Genre:
Erotic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Romance fiction.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page xxvii).
LCCN:
92052931
ISBN:
9780679410430
0679410430
Other Number:
25632146
System Availability:
5
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
5
Control Number:
725778
Call Number:
FICTION Nabokov
Course Reserves:
0
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4
# System items in:
4