An edition of Lolita (1955)

Lolita

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An edition of Lolita (1955)

Lolita

  • 3.95 ·
  • 80 Ratings
  • 2000 Want to read
  • 135 Currently reading
  • 139 Have read

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests after he becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores. The novel was originally written in English and first published in Paris in 1955 by Olympia Press. Later it was translated into Russian by Nabokov himself and published in New York City in 1967 by Phaedra Publishers.



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Lolita
1993, Orion
in English - promotional edition
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Lolita
1986-07, Berkley Books
mass market paperback in English - Berkley edition, thirty-fifth printing
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Lolita
1979, Guild Publishing
hardcover in English
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Lolita
1979, Guild Publishing
hardcover in English
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Lolita
[1978], Nieuwe Wieken, Omega Boek, Bruna
Hardcover in Dutch
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Lolita
1968-03, Berkley Publishing Corporation
mass market paperback in English - Berkley Medalion 2nd, second printing
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Lolita
1960-01, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
hardcover in Italian - XII
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Lolita
1960-10, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
hardcover in English - Fourth impression
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Lolita
1959-12, Crest Giant
mass market paperback in English - First Crest printing
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Lolita
1958, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Putnam
hardcover in English - Eighth impression
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Lolita
1958, G. P. Putnam's Sons
hardcover in English - Eleventh impression

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Amsterdam, Netherlands, Oisterwijk, Netherlands, Antwerpen, Belgium

Edition Notes

Oorspr. Nederlandse uitg.: 's-Gravenhage : Oisterwijk, 1958. - (De wijde horizon). - Vert. naar de uitg. : Paris : Olympia Press, 1955.

Translation Of
Lolita
Translated From
English

Contributors

Translator
M. Coutinho

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
329 p.
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25429595M
ISBN 10
906057155X

Excerpts

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
added anonymously. "first sentence"

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