Lolita
Language: English
Publisher: Putnam
Published: Feb 14, 1955
Date Read:
Nov 18, 1998
Form:
Novel
Pages:
352
Read Status:
read
Shelves:
read
Word Count:
115744
Book Details
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Description:
Awe and exhiliration--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.