Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov- Author

by Vladimir Nabokov

2024-04-23 09:23:58

Notes From Your Bookseller A timeless story that rides the line between satire and dread like a bucking bronco, Lolita is always the subject of heated discussions, and there’s only one way to find out why. Awe and exhiliration--along with... Read more

Notes From Your Bookseller

A timeless story that rides the line between satire and dread like a bucking bronco, Lolita is always the subject of heated discussions, and there’s only one way to find out why.

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.

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Book Details

Print pages336
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date August 24, 2010
ISBN9780307744029
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( 22 April 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Russia, he wrot...

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