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A revised and annotated edition of "Lolita". This novel about a middle-aged Englishman's passion for a 12-year-old girl, caused a sensation when first published. This version aims to enable students to appreciate its many layers of meaning.
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..."the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel."--From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
" ...the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel." --From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
" Fascinatingly detailed." --Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
.,."the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel."--From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
."..the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel."--From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
..".the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel."--From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
..".the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel."--From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
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"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
" ...the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel." --From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
" Fascinatingly detailed." --Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
.,."the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel."--From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
."..the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel."--From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
..".the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel."--From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
..".the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning, ' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the recondite materials and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The main purpose of this edition is to solve such local problems and to show how they contribute to the total design of the novel."--From the Preface by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed."--Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian émigré writers. He died in 1977.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0140245073
- ISBN 13 9780140245073
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages544
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