Lolita
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Dorset Village Public Library - Fiction - Mezzanine | CLASSIC FIC NABOKOV | On Shelf |
John G. McCullough Free Library - Fiction | FIC NABOKOV | On Shelf |
Manchester Community Library - Main Library | FIC Nabokov, Vladimir | On Shelf |
Morristown Centennial - Fiction - Main Library | F NABOKOV | On Shelf |
Norman Williams Public Library - Fiction - 1st Floor | NAB | On Shelf |
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Book
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
50th Anniversary edition, Foreward by John Ray, Jr.
Description
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre 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 for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized Europe colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Target Audience
Adult.,Brodart
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Nabokov, V. V. (19891955). Lolita (1st Vintage international ed.). Vintage.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. 19891955. Lolita. Vintage.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lolita Vintage, 19891955.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Lolita 1st Vintage international ed., Vintage, 19891955.
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