The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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.

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ISBN 13	9780679727293
ISBN 10	0679727299
Title	The Annotated Lolita
Author	Vladimir Nabokov
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1991-04-23
Number of pages	544
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.