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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.57 You Save: $6.38 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780679727293 Edition: Rev Upd Su ISBN: 0679727299 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: April 23, 1991 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: April 23, 1991 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher moral ground (the editor of the London Sunday Express declaring it "the filthiest book I've ever read"). Since then, the sinuous novel has never ceased to astound. Even Nabokov was astonished by its place in the popular imagination. One biographer writes that "he was quite shocked when a little girl of eight or nine came to his door for candy on Halloween, dressed up by her parents as Lolita." And when it came time to casting the film, Nabokov declared, "Let them find a dwarfess!" The character Lolita's power now exists almost separately from the endlessly inventive novel. If only it were read as often as it is alluded to. Alfred Appel Jr., editor of the annotated edition, has appended some 900 notes, an exhaustive, good-humored introduction, and a recent preface in which he admits that the "reader familiar with Lolita can approach the apparatus as a separate unit, but the perspicacious student who keeps turning back and forth from text to Notes risks vertigo." No matter. The notes range from translations to the anatomical to the complex textual. Appel is also happy to point out the Great Punster's supposedly unintended word play: he defends the phrase "Beaver Eaters" as "a portmanteau of 'Beefeaters' (the yeoman of the British royal guard) and their beaver hats." Product Description: The annotated text of this modern classic. It 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Complete control of the english languageFor someone who natively speaks english and studies Russian, it is astounding to think someone could write so eloquently, so densely, and so poetically in a tongue that was not their own. The annotations are virtually vital to decode the layers of references and aphorisms seeded into this remarkable masterwork of fiction. Rating:  - Duelling opinionsWhether you like 'Lolita' depends on whether Nabokov is successful in sucking you into his fractured world of longing for something impossible, persuading yourself you have it while knowing you don't. I really don't think Nabokov intends any value judgments about his characters, any moral conclusions, let alone any comparisons between old Europe and young America. I'm not sure he even feels particularly strongly about the evils of pedophilia (see the sanctimonious ending to the foreword by the ... Read More Rating:  - Stick with the unannotated editionAppel's annotations are simply insufferable. It's pathetic and depressing to read his sniveling Kinbote impression--is he completely unaware that he represents exactly what Nabokov was mocking in Pale Fire? Even trying to use his annotations as merely a reference to help translate the French in the book will leave you quivering with rage, as Appel submits you to his Stanford ENG 300 course, draws absurd and positively indefensible parallels (some of which that he even admits--with the appropriate ... Read More Rating: - The essence of perfect writingabsolutely beautiful writing. Reading the words Nabokov writes is like fine dining, you can almost taste the words they are so rich and poetic. I do recommend the annotated version unless you are Nobokov. It is just so rich with hidden meaning, symbols, and references to myriad things that it is just impossible to get the full story without it. I wish there was a six star rating! Rating: - What is pornography?Having read Lolita over thirty-five years ago, my fondest memories pertain to the comments made by Nabokov in his afterward. Those who would comment on the pornographic nature of the work either ignored this part or misunderstood it. 
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