Lolita - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 7532754405 ISBN 13: 9787532754403

Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Pub. Date :2011-7-1, 2011

Synopsis

Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hyper-civilized 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. 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. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Pub. Date :2011-7-1
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 7532754405
• ISBN 13: 9787532754403
• Binding: Paperback