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  • Awe and exhilaration - along with heartbreak and mordant wit - abound in Lolita, Vladimir 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. Most of all, it is a meditation on love ... Continue

    Awe and exhilaration - along with heartbreak and mordant wit - abound in Lolita, Vladimir 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. Most of all, it is a meditation on love - love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

    

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  • There is a reason why Vladmir Nabokov is considered one of the greatest writers of this past century - and this novel is the best-known example of his deceptively simple style. Nabokov is a master storyteller, he gives great characterizations and has amazing attention to detail. (some may contend t ... Continue

    There is a reason why Vladmir Nabokov is considered one of the greatest writers of this past century - and this novel is the best-known example of his deceptively simple style. Nabokov is a master storyteller, he gives great characterizations and has amazing attention to detail. (some may contend too much of the latter, especially in the various hotel entries.)

    It is often maligned by people who only have heard the concept of this work, and never actually read the book. It's a beautiful, finely wrought jewel of a book, deservedly acclaimed as one of the best of the 20th century.

    Read it and judge for yourself.

    

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  • The new translation is better.

    

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• ― Lissette 2 said on Nov 4, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • Far to risque for my tastes...

    

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• ― Charley Snipe said on Aug 21, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Finish this because I cannot find the novel version. (and was looking for the term "Lolita" originally come from)
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    This is a movie script about Pedophilia. But I don't think the relationship between 2 main roles are pedophilia but fondness. Lolita is simply the model of the fondling kid ... Continue

    Finish this because I cannot find the novel version. (and was looking for the term "Lolita" originally come from)
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    This is a movie script about Pedophilia. But I don't think the relationship between 2 main roles are pedophilia but fondness. Lolita is simply the model of the fondling kid that asking for everything without thinking what she should and should not do. Humbert, of course, is the "father" who loves Lolita so much that allow her to ask whatever she wants.
    I don't like the way how script present the novel but I am not going to read it anyway.

    

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• ― 月魂‧蝶舞 said on Apr 12, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.

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.

With an Introduction by Martin Amis


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