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An edition of Lolita (1955)

Lolita

50th anniversary edition

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  • 142 Have read

The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl. 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 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.

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Random House, Inc.
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317

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erotic fiction, romance fiction, fiction, love stories, novela, literary fiction, classic fiction, coming-of-age, Girls in fiction, Girls, Drama, Middle-aged men, Russian fiction, Middle-aged men in fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Stepfathers, Stepdaughters, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Hombres, Relaciones hombre-mujer, Muchachas, Edad madura, Ficción, Pedophilia, Love, Teenage girls, Translations into English, Teenagers, Sexual behavior, Child molesters, Large type books, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, erotica, general, Young women, fiction, collectionID:EanesChallenge, Murderers, Hommes d'âge moyen, Romans, nouvelles, Filles, Kommentar, Sex addiction, Abhängigkeit, Sexuelle Attraktion, Stieftochter, Stiefvater, collectionID:bannedbooks, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Художественная литература -- США -- Американская литература -- 2-ая пол. 20 в. -- Романы, Fiction in english, Erotica, Literary collections, Middle-aged men--fiction, Girls--fiction, Ps3527.a15 l6 1992, 813/.54
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Lolita
June 1997, Random House, Inc.
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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
1968-03, Berkley Publishing Corporation
mass market paperback in English - Berkley Medalion 2nd, second printing
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Lolita
1960-10, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
hardcover in English - Fourth impression
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Lolita
1960-01, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
hardcover in Italian - XII
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Lolita
1959-12, Crest Giant
mass market paperback in English - First Crest printing
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1958, G. P. Putnam's Sons
hardcover in English - Eleventh impression
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Lolita
1958, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Putnam
hardcover in English - Eighth impression
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Edition Notes

Second Vintage International Edition

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
1955

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3527.A15 L6 1989, PS3527.A15 L6 1997, PS3527.A15L6 1989

Contributors

Cover Design
John Gall
Author Photographer
Jerry Bauer
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Format
Paperback
Pagination
317p.
Number of pages
317

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25652062M
ISBN 13
9780679723165
LCCN
88040511
OCLC/WorldCat
18681573

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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, light of my life, fire of my loins.
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