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by: Vladimir Nabokov  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN: 9780676514193 ISBN: 0676514197 Label: Vintage Books Manufacturer: Vintage Books Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1997-08 Publisher: Vintage Books Studio: Vintage Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita triggers a deep conflict within the American psyche about crossing the line between love and the perverse lust for a child. In the bestselling audiobook, Jeremy Irons delivers a smooth, calculating presentation of Humbert Humbert, the middle-aged man obsessed with a 13-year-old girl named Lolita. Following a failed marriage to a "large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba," 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 realizes he lives next door to 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. The Russian-born author has amazing control of the English language--his jaw-dropping prose comes through powerfully on this audiotape (though some scholars believe the novel symbolizes Nabokov's internal struggle with the English language). Regardless of whether you condemn or condone the classic, listening to this audio rendition is a must. --Gina Kaysen (Running time: 11.5 hours) Product Description: Reissued to coincide with a major motion picture adaptation starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith, the classic novel traces an aging, European emigre+a7's infatuation with a precocious American youngster. Reprint. Movie tie-in. 150,000 first printing. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpieceLolita is a beautifully-written book about a man and his sexual relationship with a young girl. Nabokov's beautiful writing contrasts sharply with the book's crude subject matter. This contrast is what makes this book brilliant, in my opinion. Rating:  - Upends your preconceptions and prejudicesThis is a book that must be read with an open mind. If you read it before judging its controversial contents, it will be sure to expand your mind and make you think about subjects in a whole new light. After I read this book, I could not stop thinking about it, and the moral questions is brought up. Most of all, it made me think: what is love? In the middle of the book, I was convinced that Humbert Humbert was a despicable monster who did not love Dolores; by the end of the book, I was less convinced. ... Read More Rating: - Which book did you read?In writing `Lolita', Vladimir Nabokov had chosen a very difficult topic to demonstrate his writing prowess. Why? Because many - if not most - readers have formed views about the subject matter and the characters before they have read the book. My review is not of the content but of the writing and the ambiguity of language. Words are used to both summarise facts and to create fiction. Differentiating the two is not always easy, especially if the subject matter is distasteful. ... Read More Rating: - A road movie of the mindPraise be to Graham Greene, who was not only an interesting novelist (e.g. The Quiet American), but he also has the merit of saving Nabokov's Lolita from obscurity. When the book found no publisher in the US, it was first brought out by a shady Parisian company that specialized in erotic books in the English language. That was a tourist attraction in Paris. For reasons unknown to me (why would Greene even know the series? he had other oddities about his character), Greene took notice of the book and named ... Read More Rating: - The Most Beautiful Novel Ever WrittenAn account of pathological love so tender that it has no rival in literature. A dreamlike plot and dream-exquisite prose: perfection. 
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