description: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita triggers a deep conflict within the American psyche about crossing the line between love and the perverse lust for a child. In the bestselling audiobook, Jeremy Irons delivers a smooth, calculating presentation of Humbert Humbert, the middle-aged man obsessed with a 13-year-old girl named Lolita. Following a failed marriage to a "large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba," Humbert decides to move to America to work as a tutor. Much to his dismay, his plans change and he moves into a boarding house in Ramsdale, New Hampshire. But his disappointment quickly fades after he realizes he lives next door to the "light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul Lo-li-ta." The relationship blossoms between the man "with a cesspool of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile" and the sassy, vivacious young girl.  The Russian-born author has amazing control of the English language--his jaw-dropping prose comes through powerfully on this audiotape (though some scholars believe the novel symbolizes Nabokov's internal struggle with the English language). Regardless of whether you condemn or condone the classic, listening to this audio rendition is a must. --Gina Kaysen (Running time: 11.5 hours)
language: English
title: Lolita
titlecomplete: Lolita
characters: Dolores “Lolita” Haze, Humbert Humbert, Charlotte Haze, Clare Quilty
genres: Fiction, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Adult, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Russia
ratings_count: 818607
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción 
publisher: Random House Audio