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Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis [Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Se
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780679410430
- Book Title
- Lolita : Introduction by Martin Amis
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause c l bre 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679410430
ISBN-13
9780679410430
eBay Product ID (ePID)
491976
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lolita : Introduction by Martin Amis
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3527.A15l6 1992
Reviews
"The only convincing love story of our century." -Vanity Fair "Lolitablazes with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce…Lolitaseems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human comedy." -Atlantic Monthly "Intensely lyrical and wildly funny." -Time "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathy…The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art." -The New Yorker "Lolitais an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and serious reflectiona revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors." -San Francisco Chronicle, "The only convincing love story of our century." - Vanity Fair " Lolita blazes with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce… Lolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human comedy." - Atlantic Monthly "Intensely lyrical and wildly funny." - Time "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathy…The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art." - The New Yorker " Lolita is an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and serious reflectiona revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors." - San Francisco Chronicle, One of TIME Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels " Lolita blazes with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce... Lolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human comedy." -- The Atlantic Monthly "Intensely lyrical and wildly funny." -- Time "The only convincing love story of our century." -- Vanity Fair "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathy...The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art." -- The New Yorker "A revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
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Lccn
92-052931
Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
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