When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre 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.

Classic Literature. Fiction. Literature. HTML: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.

A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.

Having caused immense controversy when first released in 1955, Nabokov's Lolita is back, raising questions of propriety and decency in the 21st century. When Humbert Humbert falls in love with the precocious twelve-year-old Dolores Haze, an uber-civilized Europe collides with the postwar, merry United States.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.

Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed by 12 year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically. This is Nabokov's best known novel which brought him worldwide fame and was later made into a film.

Presents the degeneration which results from a middle-aged professor's desperate obsession with a precocious, callous teenager whose mother he marries just to be near the young girl.

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“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession 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.

In the decades of its first publication, LOLITA has emerged as a classic of contemporary literature. Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessedby twelve year old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love. This seduction is one of the many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with rich, elaborate verbal textures.

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.

Lolita is the story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his her both physically and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy...

Aging intellectual Humbert Humbert's obsession for twelve-year-old Dolores Haze, whom he nicknames Lolita, leads him to marry her mother just so he can be closer to her, but his love quickly drives him to madness.

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing.

Humbert Humbert attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. Humbert's cross-country flight with his adored nymphet ends with her betrayal of him with his rival, the evil Quilty, who pursues Lolita not out of love but out of lust and selfishness, and who functions as a kind of double for the more pure-hearted (if perverse) Humbert.

Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.

A middle-aged man marries an opressive widow in order to be near and carry on an affair with her nymphet daughter.

The story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta- the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? 'A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age' Independent

Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition 'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.

Hubert Humbert is a middle-age fantasist, still in love with Annabel, his first sweetheart. She was a beautiful and pure young woman who died years ago of typhus. Out of the blue Humbert finds a girl fatally reminiscent of Annabel. Her name is Dolores; he rechristens her Lolita. But instead of the innocence he expects, Lolita gives him steamy pubescence. she is greedily sensual, eager to earn her way into womanhood.

Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle aged college professor. Haunted by memoires of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and eventually illegally) in lust with his landlady's twelve year old daughter, Dolorez Haze.Obseesed, he'll do anything, will commit any crime to posses his Lolita. But once Lolita belongs to Humbert, once he has got what he wants, what next? and what of Lolita? how long is she willing to be possessed?

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.' Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. This seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. 'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine . . . You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalised assent.' Martin Amis, Observer

A revised and expanded 'Lolita' with preface, introduction and notes by Professor Appel, who was taught by Nabokov.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? ...Or is he all of these?

The novel which first established Nabokov's reputation with a large audience is a tour-de-force of comic satire on sex and the American way of life. It focuses on the love of a middle-aged European for an American nymphet. By the author of Laughter in the Dark, Pnin and Pale Fire.

The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl.

Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover. Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion.

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"The only convincing love story of our century."

. HTML:"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.". "Intensely lyrical and wildly funny.". "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.". HTML:"Lolita is an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and serious reflection--a revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors.". HTML:

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.

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Humbert Humbert attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. Humbert's cross-country flight with his adored nymphet ends with her betrayal of him with his rival, the evil Quilty, who pursues Lolita not out of love but out of lust and selfishness, and who functions as a kind of double for the more pure-hearted (if perverse) Humbert. Lolita, la más famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesión devoradora del cuarentón Humbert Humbert por la nínfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinación --además de tristeza y un humor mordaz-- llenan sus páginas pero es, por encima de todo, una meditación sobre el amor--el amor como abuso y alucinación, locura y transformación.--Desde la descripción de la editorial.

'You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.'Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle-aged college professor. Haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and illegally) in lust with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Dolores Haze. Obsessed, he'll do anything, will commit any crime, to possess his Lolita. But once Lolita belongs to Humbert, once he has got what he wants, what next? And what of Lolita? How long is she willing to be possessed? 'You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent' Martin Amis, OBSERVER'Nabokov's command of words, his joy in them, his comic and ecstatic use of them, wrapped around his particular vision of life, is the Nabokivan finishing touch which makes reading his work such an intense joy' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Lolita is more the shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny . . . a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes' TIME

Actor James Mason masterfully reads the witty, poetic prose as his rolling British tongue humorously renders Nabokov's characters and settings in colorful three-dimension. Originally a tough sell to publishers because of its racy theme, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is now recognized as a twentieth-century classic. The story of a middle-aged man's overpowering desire for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita somehow transcends its own eroticism and is, finally, one of the greatest love stories of all time.

A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists. The endpapers for this title have been designed by Louisa Scarlet Gray. Following a failed marriage to a 'large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba', Humbert Humbert decides to move to America to work as a tutor. Much to his dismay, his plans change and he moves into a boarding house in Ramsdale, New Hampshire. But his disappointment quickly fades after he realises the duaghter of his landlady is the 'light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul Lo-li-ta.' The relationship blossoms between the man 'with a cesspool of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile' and the sassy, vivacious young girl in Nabokov's highly controversial take on the classic American road trip novel.

When the aging émigré Humbert Humbert falls in love with the precocious nymphet Dolores Haze, all the rules--of desire, deceny, and literature, are broken. Lolita has the power to shock, challenge, and enrapture anyone who listens to this masterful performance.

Humbert Humbert , scholar, aesthete and romantic , has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter.

Fiction. Literature. "The only convincing love story of our century.". HTML:"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.". "Intensely lyrical and wildly funny.". "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.". HTML:"Lolita is an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and serious reflection--a revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors.". As the controversy over the new film release of Lolita keeps it confined to art theaters in big cities, the audiobook delivers--in wide release--an uncensored and unabridged production of Nabokov's literary classic. Jeremy Irons, who plays the darkly seductive Humbert Humbert in both the film and the audiobook, commands the text with the grand sense of character and palpable eroticism it requires. It's not easy to make a protagonist out of a pedophile. The combination of Nabokov's prose and Irons's performance carries listeners out of a seat of judgment into Humbert's pure admiration for and desire to possess that archetypical fire-energy of a young girl. This horrifyingly beautiful story of wild obsession truly comes alive in this audiobook production. R.A.P. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine. HTML: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.
From the Trade Paperback edition..

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "One of the funniest serious novels I have ever read." —Atlantic Monthly Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession 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.

This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture.

Nabokov's notorious erotic murder mystery takes the form of a monologue by his hero, Humbert Humbert, as he attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Lolita. Humbert Humbert is contrasted with the evil Quilty, who pursues Lolita not out of love but out of lust and selfishness, and who functions as a kind of double for the more pure-hearted (if perverse) Humbert - and whom Humbert must murder in the end.

A novel that establishes the author's reputation with a large audience tour-de-force of comic satire on sex and the American ways of life.

Humbert Humbert's obsession for Dolores Haze leads him to marry her mother just so he can be closer to her, but soon his love for Dolores drives him to madness.

-- Lolita Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

In 1955 saw the light of "Lolita" - the third American novel by Vladimir Nabokov, the creator of "The Defense", "Despair", "Invitation to a Beheading" and "Dara." caused a scandal on both sides of the ocean, this book is the author's lifted to the top of the literary Olympus and became one of the most famous and undoubtedly the greatest works of the XX century. Today, when polemical passion around "Lolita" has long been settled, we can confidently say that it is - a book about the great love that has overcome the disease, death and time, love, open to infinity, "love at first sight, with the latter view, with the eternal sight. " This edition restored fragment diary Humbert from the third chapter of the second part of the novel, was absent in all previous Russian-language editions of "Lolita."

Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as a classic not to the controversy its subject matter aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. With an introduction by Martin Amis. 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. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in 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.

"Los adjetivos de escandalosa, inmoral, decadente y ultrajante acompanaron largo tiempo a Lolita, hoy ya considerada una obra maestra de la literatura. La historia de la obsesion de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarenton, por la doceanera Lolita es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atraccion perversa por las ninfulas y el incesto." -- "Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed by 12-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically. This is Nabokov's best known novel which brought him worldwide fame and was later made into a film." --

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?[Bokinfo]

Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound editionPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'.

Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in america. Haunted by memories of lost adolescent love, he sets out to seduce his landlady??s daughter. But first he must get rid of the mother.

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"When it was published in 1955, LOLITA immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist, Humbert Humbert, and his two principal interlocutors, the pre-pubescent Lolita, and the magnificently weird playwright, Mr. Clare Quilty. But Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's classic novels not to the controversy its material aroused, but to the fact that its author used that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness"--Dust jacket.

Lolita 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.

Korean edition of the world classic LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov is about desire and obsession of a middle aged man for a 12-year old girl. Translated from an English version by Kim Jin Jun. In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

The questions, discussion topics, author biography, and bibliography that follow are designed to enhance your group's reading of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita . We hope they will provide you with ways of looking at-and talking about-a novel that has become a permanent part of the American literary canon, and indeed of the American language, without losing its capacity to dazzle, baffle, and at times shock the unwary reader.

"One of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a strange, troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by Craig Raine. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe" --

With an Introduction by Martin Amis. When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre 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.When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre 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.

Pedophile professor Humbert Humbert obssesses over the life of a teenage girl "Lolita," abusing her constantly, and he marries her mother so he can continue a relationship with Lolita.

He came from the stars -- and sixth grade will never be the same! The aliens have finally made contact! But when the first ambassador from another planet arrives, he insists that his son, Pleskit Meenom, be treated like any other citizen on Earth. Which is why Pleskit has become the first purple kid in Ms. Weintraub's sixth grade class. For Tim Tompkins, who has been waiting his entire life to meet an alien, this is like a dream come true. But when Pleskit invites Tim back to the embassy and they stumble across a plan to sabotage the alien mission, Tim's dream becomes a life-threatening nightmare.

The story of the passion of a middle-aged man for a young teenager, who develops elaborate schemes to be near the object of his desire.

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. Imponente y exhiliration - junto con la angustia y el ingenio mordaz - abundan en Lolita, la novela más famosa y controvertida de Nabokov, que cuenta la historia de la pasión envejecimiento Humbert Humbert obsesivo, devorador, y condenado por la nínfula Dolores Haze. Así que Lolita es la historia de una colisión hypercivilized Europea con la barbarie alegre de posguerra de Estados Unidos. Por encima de todo, es una meditación sobre el amor - el amor como la indignación y la alucinación, la locura y la transformación.

Gesellschaftskritischer, psychologischer Roman aus den USA um die Liebe einer Vierzigjährigen zu einem 12jährigen Mädchen.

"Lolita, Licht meines Lebens, Feuer meiner Lenden. Meine Sünde, meine Seele. Lo-li-ta:die Zungenspitze macht drei Sprünge den Gaumen hinab und tippt bei Drei gegen dieZähne. Lo. Li. Ta."Der viel umstrittene, längst zu Weltruhm gelangte und zweifach verfilmte Roman einer tragischen Passion: Ein Vierzigjähriger verfällt dem grazilen Zauber einer kindlichen Nymphe und erfährt die Liebe als absolute Macht über Leben und Tod.

Světoznámý bestseller z 50. let 20. století je výpovědí o osudové vášni zralého muže k nedospělé dívce v podobě zápisků z vězení, kde hrdina tráví své poslední dny za vraždu soka.

Roman om en 40-Ã¥rig mands erotiske betagelse af en 12-Ã¥rs pige.

Om en midaldrende forfatters betagelse af en 13-Ã¥rig pige.

Om en 40-r̄ig mands erotiske betagelse af en mindrer̄ig pige.

Den ældre Humbert Humbert gifter sig med enken Charlotte Haze med det formål at være tæt på Charlottes smukke teenagedatter, som bliver en erotisk besættelse for ham, hvilket får fatale følger.

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Extases et calvaire d'un quadragénaire sensible aux charmes prépubères. Un roman audacieux qui obtint un succès de scandale quelques années (en 1958) après sa parution (en 1955) et rendit célèbre son auteur, distingué polyglotte, romancier et entomologiste. Introduction, p. 9-17. En appendice, un article de Nabokov écrit en novembre 1956 pour «The Anchor Review», p. 459-468. [SDM]

Extases et calvaire d'un quadragénaire sensible aux charmes prépubères. Un roman audacieux qui obtint un succès de scandale quelques années (en 1958) après sa parution (en 1955) et rendit célèbre son auteur, distingué polyglotte, romancier et entomologiste. Introduction, p. 9-19. Quelques notes infrapaginales. En postface, un article, p. 541-[552], écrit en 1956 par Nabokov et consacré à la genèse de ##Lolita##. Version cinématographique par Stanley Kubrick en 1962 et par Adrian Lyne en 1997. [SDM]

"Keski-ikäinen Humbert Humbert rakastuu 12-vuotiaaseen Lolitaan eli Dolores Hazeen niin intohimoisesti, että on valmis menemään naimisiin tytön äidin kanssa vain päästäkseen lähelle Lolitaa. Kun Charlotte Haze yllättäen kuolee, Humbertista tulee Lolitan isäpuoli. Syyllisyyden ja halun riivaama Humbert pelkää paljastuvansa ja pakenee halki Yhdysvaltojen mukanaan Lolita, josta on tullut Humbertin pakkomielle ja eroottisten unelmien kohde. Lolita on hurja ja vaikuttava kertomus hyväksikäytöstä, rakkaudesta, omistushalusta ja pakkomielteen pelottavasta voimasta. Kertoja on Humbert itse, joka kertoo tarinansa vuosia myöhemmin, vankilassa oikeudenkäyntiä odottaessaan. Nabokovin taidokas ja runollinen kerronta kauhistuttaa ja lumoaa yhtä aikaa. Kun Lolitan käsikirjoitus oli valmis, Vladimir Nabokovin (1899-1977) ystävät ja kollegat yrittivät suostutella kirjailijaa luopumaan ajatuksesta. Tämä kirja olisi liian vaarallinen, liian sopimaton julkaistavaksi. Lolita kuitenkin julkaistiin Pariisissa vuonna 1955, ja se julistettiin heti kielletyksi kirjaksi. Tästä huolimatta Lolitasta tuli bestseller Euroopassa ja Amerikassa, ja se on edelleen yksi kirjallisuuden häikäisevimmistä klassikoista." -- (Gummerus)

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La historia de la obsesión de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarentón, por la doceañera Lolita es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atracción «perversa» por las nínfulas y el incesto. Un itinerario a través de la locura y la muerte, que desemboca en una estilizadísima violencia, narrado, a la vez con autoironía y lirismo desenfrenado, por el propio Humbert Humbert. "Lolita" es también un retrato ácido y visionario de los Estados Unidos, de los horrores suburbanos y de la cultura del plástico y del motel. En resumen, una exhibición deslumbrante de talento y humor a cargo de un escritor que confesó que le hubiera encantado filmar los

Lolita, la más famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesión devoradora del cuarentón Humbert Humbert por la nínfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinación --además de tristeza y un humor mordaz-- llenan sus páginas pero es, por encima de todo, una meditación sobre el amor--el amor como abuso y alucinación, locura y transformación.

Un excatedrático escribe a su amigo fallecido Hilario quien, como él, dedicó su vida a los estudios humanísticos clásicos. En cartas emocionales e impulsivas,  lúcidas y eruditas, rememora momentos de su vida junto a Hilario entre España e Italia, entreverados con pasajes de la historia imperial romana en la época de Augusto.Confluyen en esta novela epistolar dos periodos históricos,  y en ambos aparece el eterno femenino a través de una atractiva Clodia, vinculada al emperador y cantada por los poetas alejandrinos, y una Clodia terrenal,  vecina de Tíjola, que fue doméstica de Hilario y laboró en el más antiguo oficio del mundo.

ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Lolita, la provocadora y ácida novela de Vladimir Nabokov. En ella, el autor narra con maestría la historia de la obsesión del cuadragenario Humbert por la joven Dolores Haza, de solo 13 años. Una magistral obra con un trasfondo psicológico que mezcla atracción e incesto y que no deja a nadie indiferente. ¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros lo hemos hecho por ti! Esta guía incluye: - Un resumen completo del libro - Un estudio de los personajes - Las claves de lectura - Pistas para la reflexión ¿Por qué elegir ResumenExpress.com? Para aprender de forma rápida. Porque nuestras publicaciones están escritas con un estilo claro y conciso que te ayudará a ganar tiempo y a entender las obras sin esfuerzo. Disponibles en formato impreso y digital, te acompañarán en tu aventura literaria. Toma una dosis de literatura acelerada con ResumenExpress.com

La historia de la obsesión de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarentón, por la doceañera Lolita, es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atracción perversa por las nínfulas y el incesto. Un itinerario a trav

ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta gua? de lectura Lolita, la provocadora y c?ida novela de Vladimir Nabokov. En ella, el autor narra con maestra? la historia de la obsesin? del cuadragenario Humbert por la joven Dolores Haza, de solo 13 a?s. Una magistral obra con un trasfondo psicolg?ico que mezcla atraccin? e incesto y que no deja a nadie indiferente. ?Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros lo hemos hecho por ti! Esta gua? incluye: - Un resumen completo del libro - Un estudio de los personajes - Las claves de lectura - Pistas para la reflexin?

Lolita es la novela mas conocida del escritor ruso Vladimir Nabokov publicada por primera vez en 1955 que trata sobre la obsesion sexual de un hombre de mediana edad por su hijastra de 12 anos.1 2 3 4 5 No exenta de polemica, esta considerada por muchos criticos y academicos como una obra maestra de la literatura universal contemporanea y un clasico moderno"

Los adjetivos de escandalosa, inmoral, decadente y ultrajante acompanaron largo tiempo a Lolita, hoy ya considerada una obra maestra de la literatura. La historia de la obsesion de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarenton, por la doceanera Lolita es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atraccion perversa por las ninfulas y el incesto.

Lolita av Vladimir Nabokov er historien om en tragisk lidenskap, om en middelaldrende manns kjærlighet til en tolv år gammel jente. Den er både en erotisk studie og en samfunnsatire som savner sidestykke i vår litterære kanon. Boken er blitt filmatisert flere ganger. Lolita har beholdt sin provokatoriske kraft i alle årene som har gått siden Nabokov skrev boken. Den er like omdiskutert i dag som da den kom ut i 1955. «Lolita er et mesterverk som er gripende og frastøtende, underfundig morsomt og dypt tragisk. Et kunstverk som, i sin genialitet, forfører deg og som etterlater deg rystet og smilende, vemmet og leende, og full av beundring for Nabokovs virtuositet.» Tom Egeland, Dagbladet «... en av de vakreste, en av de mest lysende kjærlighetsskildringer i moderne litteratur.» Erling Christie, Aftenposten «En undergravende, men guddommelig komedie.» Martin Amis «Nabokov skriver prosa slik den skal skrives, det vil si på en helt ekstatisk måte.» John Updike

En middelaldrende manns kjærlighet til 12 år gamle Lolita driver ham til kriminelle handlinger.

Berømt roman om den 40-årig Humbert Humberts fatale erotiske betagelse af sin 12-årige steddatter. Romanen er filmatiseret.

En medelålders man tar med sin tolvåriga styvdotter på en resa genom USA. Han utnyttjar henne sexuellt. Boken utkom 1955, översattes till svenska 1957. Nyöversättning av Aris Fioretos.

* Över 50 miljoner sålda exemplar * 4:a på Modern Librarys lista över 1900-talets bästa engelskspråkiga romaner * Aris Fioretos lysande översättning för första gången i inbunden utgåva, med Nabokovs eget förord och ett efterord av översättaren För exakt sextio år sedan kom Vladimir Nabokovs parodiska och tragiska passionshistoria Lolita ut på det beryktade förlaget Olympia Press i Paris, efter att fem amerikanska förlag refuserat den. I dag är Lolita självklar på alla listor över världslitteraturens största klassiker. Flödande intelligenta lekar med genrer som bekännelseroman, romantisk roman, dubbelgångarskräckberättelsen, detektivromanen med flera. En vild och grotesk fars i sin hejdlösa kritik av modern kärlek: Hos Nabokov är objektifieringen av den andre hänsynslös, monstruös, till och med totalitär. Men inte minst också en chockerande historia, den om hur Humbert Humbert dyrkar, exploaterar och utnyttjar den tolvåriga flickan Lolita. Åtskilliga försök har gjorts att överföra romanen till svenska. I Aris Fioretos har Lolita till slut funnit sin kongeniale uttolkare. För första gången ges nu översättningen ut i inbunden form. Denna utgåva är också försedd med Nabokovs eget förord, samt en efterskrift av översättaren. VLADIMIR NABOKOV [1899-1977] föddes i S:t Petersburg. 1919 flydde han undan den ryska revolutionen till England och levde sedan i livslång exil i Tyskland, Frankrike, USA och Schweiz. Han har publicerat romaner, noveller, dikter och dramatik. Sitt stora genombrott fick han efter att ha övergått från ryskan till att skriva på engelska. Hans mest lästa verk är romanen Lolita [1955]. [Publit]