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"Fascinatingly detailed." -Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. 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 European 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.
Kindle Book
- Release date: August 17, 2011
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780307788085
- Release date: August 17, 2011
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780307788085
- File size: 3230 KB
- Release date: August 17, 2011
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