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Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | Vintage |
Publication date | July 23, 2010 |
Print length | 348 pages |
Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars / 5,840 ratings |
Sold by | Random House LLC |
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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.