| Lolita Contributor(s): Nabokov, Vladimir (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679723161 ISBN-13: 9780679723165 Publisher: Vintage Books USA OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1989 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 88040511 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.21" W x 8.03" (0.56 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |