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An edition of Lolita (1955)

Lolita

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"She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita..." Humbert Humbert is a 40-year-old„ sophisticated college professor in the grip of an obsession tor 'nymphets' — demon-girls poised on the brink of worldly experience. When he meets 1 2-year-old Dolores Haze, his heart soars, his passion throbs and his life starts speeding towards destruction. Rapturous, riddling, blackly comic and written in a prose that sings and scorches, Lolita is the book that scandalised a generation, and seduces every new one.

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Orion
Language
English
Pages
257

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Lolita Haze, Humbert Humbert, Clare Quilty, Charlotte Haze

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20th century

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Lolita
1993, Orion
in English - promotional edition
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Lolita
1986-07, Berkley Books
mass market paperback in English - Berkley edition, thirty-fifth printing
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Lolita
1979, Guild Publishing
hardcover in English
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Lolita
1979, Guild Publishing
hardcover in English
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Lolita
1968-03, Berkley Publishing Corporation
mass market paperback in English - Berkley Medalion 2nd, second printing
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Lolita
1960-01, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
hardcover in Italian - XII
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Lolita
1960-10, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
hardcover in English - Fourth impression
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Lolita
1959-12, Crest Giant
mass market paperback in English - First Crest printing
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Lolita
1958, G. P. Putnam's Sons
hardcover in English - Eleventh impression
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Lolita
1958, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Putnam
hardcover in English - Eighth impression

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Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
257p.
Number of pages
257

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37824831M
Internet Archive
onedayinlifeofiv0000solz_v0m0
ISBN 10
0586045287
ISBN 13
9780586045282

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Work Description

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests after he becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores. The novel was originally written in English and first published in Paris in 1955 by Olympia Press. Later it was translated into Russian by Nabokov himself and published in New York City in 1967 by Phaedra Publishers.


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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
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