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Lolita Audio Book
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Lolita
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
Reader: Jeremy Irons
Fraud, kidnapping, and murder are the least of the crimes aging emigré Humbert Humbert commits when he falls for a precocious nymphet. The modern classic is now a major motion picture. "Controversial and sardonic tale of obsessive love and the malignant banality of life in America... Irons' inspired reading is not to be missed."—Chicago Tribune
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Audio CDs ( 10 ) |
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Publish Date: 04/19/2005
ISBN: 9780739322062
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Synopsis:
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Vladimir Nabokov's notorious, hilarious 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 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. Some critics see Humbert (who, like Nabokov, was a European émigré) and Lolita (the quintessentially vulgar American) as personifications of the Old and New Worlds, one corrupting the other (but which?). One of the astonishing aspects of Nabokov's masterpiece is his dazzling command of English, including puns and wordplay worthy of Joyce. Another is the novel's famously checkered publishing history: LOLITA was rejected, banned, censored, and published underground, and it remained unpublished in the US until 1958.
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Book Reviews:
| "Nabokov's elusiveness...is not just playful. Forever changing sides and withholding judgment, he has contrived to forestall both our outrage at his nasty hero and our contemptuous dismissal of his trivial, complicit Juliet. His irony is never patronizing or angry....For all its glittering distractions and diversions, this is a love story, after all--an unexpected grand romance, with a poignance and conviction that match anything in our old box of American valentines." |
| New Yorker - Roger Angell (08/25/1997) |
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| "It is a distinguished novel." |
| - Graham Greene () |
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| "Lolita is a fine book, a distinguished book--all right then--a great book." |
| Esquire - Dorothy Parker () |
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Author Bio:
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Nabokov was born into a privileged Russian family, in a house with 50 servants where three languages were spoken. His childhood (brilliantly recreated in his richly evocative memoir, SPEAK, MEMORY), was idyllic, but he fled Russia at 20 after the Bolshevik revolution, losing his $2 million inheritance. He studied at Cambridge, graduating with honors, and lived for many years in a Berlin community of Russian émigrés, where his father was killed at a political rally. He began writing novels there, and later in Paris, where he lived with his wife Vera and their son. In 1940, the Nabokovs moved to the U.S.; he taught at Wellesley, and then became a professor of Russian literature at Cornell, where he is remembered for his colorful, idiosyncratic, and illuminating lectures. It was at Cornell that Nabokov wrote his most famous novel, LOLITA, the success of which enabled him to give up teaching and move to Switzerland, where he lived until his death. Nabokov saw his main theme as that of the writer as exile. His dazzling novels assure his place as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was also a beloved teacher, a more than competent lepidopterist, and a translator of many works of literature, including his own.
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