The Annotated Lolita // Revised & Updated

Nabokov’s wise, ironic, and elegant masterpiece. A controversiallove story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.This annotated edition assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a preface, introduction, and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.

“Fascinatingly detailed.” -Edmund Morris,The New York Times Book Review

When it was published in 1955,Lolitaimmediately became a cause clbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. Awe and exhilarationalong with heartbreak and mordant witabound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.

Lolitais also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on lovelove as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. After studying French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, he launched his literary career in Berlin and Paris. In 1940 he moved to the United States, here he achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. Lolita, arguably his most famous novel, was first published, by the Olympia Press, Paris, on September 15, 1955, and became a controversial success. Nabokov died in Montreux Switzerland in 1977.

• Publisher:Vintage Books USA
  
• Publish Date: April 23, 1991
  
• Pages: 544
  
• Dimensions: 5.21 X 8.03 X 0.77 inches | 0.56 pounds
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Paperback
  
• EAN/UPC: 9780679727293
  
• BISAC Categories: Classics, Literary, Coming of Age, Popular Fiction