Lolita
Edition: 50th anniversary edition
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: June 1997
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780679723165
Copyright date: 1955
Description: 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.
Notes: Second Vintage International Edition