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Lolita

Since publication in 1955 the seduction of Lolita has been recognised as one of the major works of post-war fiction in English, while with the increasing concerns of child abuse and paedophilia, it retains its power to challenge and shock. The novel remains as fresh, contemporary and striking today as when it was written.

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  • "Since publication in 1955 the seduction of Lolita has been recognised as one of the major works of post-war fiction in English, while with the increasing concerns of child abuse and paedophilia, it retains its power to challenge and shock. The novel remains as fresh, contemporary and striking today as when it was written."@en
  • "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. Since its first publication in 1955, Lolita has been recognised as one of the major works of post-war fiction in English. A dizzying masterpiece, suffused with a savage humour, it remains as fresh today as when it was first written."@en
  • "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."
  • "Nabokov's novel has created characters whose names have become synonymous with the degradation of obsessive passion. Poet and pervert Humbert becomes obsessed by a twelve year old girl and the seduction of Lolita."@en
  • "GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' LOLITA is the story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with twelve-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his 'Lolita' both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy. Initially, Nabokov was unable to find an American publisher willing to take the book on. It was finally published in Paris in 1954 but its notoriety spread quickly. Graham Green, in an interview in THE TIMES later that year, called it 'one of the best books of 1954'. When G.P. Putnam's Sons published in the US in 1958, it was a bestseller; the first book since Gone with the Wind to sell 100,000 copies in the first three weeks of publication."@en
  • "Presents an abridged version of the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel tells about the degeneration which results from a middle aged professor's desperate obsession for a teenage girl, whose mother he marries."@en
  • "Controversial erotic story of the anti-hero Humbert Humbert and his attraction to the sexually precocious Lolita."@en
  • "Poet and pervert Humbert becomes obsessed by a twelve year old girl and the seduction of Lolita. Postwar fiction which addresses increasing concerns in our culture of child abuse and paedophilia."
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "Taken from the author's novel about the degeneration which results from a middle-aged professor's desperate obsession for a precocious, callous teenager whose mother he marries just to be near the young girl."
  • "Taken from the author's novel about the degeneration which results from a middle-aged professor's desperate obsession for a precocious, callous teenager whose mother he marries just to be near the young girl."@en
  • "Compelling story of the degeneration which results from a middle-aged professor's desperate obsession for a precocious, callous teenager whose mother he marries just to be near the young girl."
  • "8 cassettes / 12 hours Unabridged. Read by Jeremy Irons Exhilarating, both appallingly funny and hauntingly sad, Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, a twentieth century classic whose characters' names have become synonymous with the outrages and degradations of obsessive passion. When the aging emigre Humbert Humbert falls in love with the precocious nymphet Dolores Haze, all the rules -- of desire, decency, and literature -- are broken. Lolita has the power to shock, challenge, and enrapture anyone who listens to this masterful performance by Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons . Even if you're not a fan of audio - I urge you to listen to this recording. Engrossing, enraging, titillating, disturbing, fascinating -- Jeremy Irons oozes with all things right in literature. The boundaries have been pushed."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "Breaking all the rules in 1955, Nabokov's Lolita is back, raising questions or 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."@en

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  • "Downloadable audio books"
  • "CD"
  • "Hörspiel"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Hörbuch"
  • "Translations"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Kærlighed"@da
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Erotic fiction"@en
  • "Erotic fiction"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Erotic stories"
  • "Erotic stories"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en

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  • "Lolita : Hörspiel"
  • "Lolita : abridged"
  • "Lolita"
  • "Lolita"@en
  • "Lolita"@da
  • "Lolita"@pl
  • "Lolita (abridged)"@en
  • "Lolita Hörspiel"

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