LoginLolita (Everyman's Library)
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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.
Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion f
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Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Release date: 9 March 1993
ISBN-10 : 0679410430 | ISBN-13: 9780679410430
Release date: 9 March 1993
ISBN-10 : 0679410430 | ISBN-13: 9780679410430
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