Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis Hardcover - 1993
by Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Martin Amis
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.
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With an Introduction by Martin Amis
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.
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- Title Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis
- Author Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Martin Amis
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 5th Printing
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
- Date March 9, 1993
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780679410430 / 0679410430
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.25 x 1.1 in (21.08 x 13.34 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Middle-aged men
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92052931
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 09/15/2004, Page 224
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/17/2008, Page 18
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