When Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged, European intellectual, meets the twelve-year-old nymphette Dolores Haze, he is reminded of his lost adolescent love Anabel. Constructing an elaborate plot to seduce her, the obsessed Humbert soon discovers that even with her mother out of the way, Dolores would never conform to the image he has conjured up for her. Playfully humorous, beautifully written, and still raising as many eyebrows as in 1955 when it was written, Nabokov s classic is at once a linguistic masterpiece and a wry ...
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When Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged, European intellectual, meets the twelve-year-old nymphette Dolores Haze, he is reminded of his lost adolescent love Anabel. Constructing an elaborate plot to seduce her, the obsessed Humbert soon discovers that even with her mother out of the way, Dolores would never conform to the image he has conjured up for her. Playfully humorous, beautifully written, and still raising as many eyebrows as in 1955 when it was written, Nabokov s classic is at once a linguistic masterpiece and a wry commentary on the post-WWII relations between the ubercivilized Europe and the young, cheerfully barbaric America.
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This was a great book. I gave it 4 stars because is was somewhere between good and excellent. It was a little hard to follow at times because some of the words were a little over my head, Keep a dictionary handy.
Patrick A
Aug 20, 2010
Beautiful copy
Lolita should be in hardcover, and the one I purchased here was in excellent shape.
57pop
Jul 14, 2010
This book is probably one of the best I have ever read. Unlike most books, the so called bad guy gives you his point of view on his love for nymphs like Dolores Haze. It's an excellent read if you like psychological books and are willing to steep through the mind of a pedophile.
SarasIsland
Jun 11, 2009
Classic
Deep insights into the mind of a pedophile.
No wonder we never could find it when we were young.
poisonapple
Sep 8, 2008
love at first sight
You will fall in love with this book after the first chapter. Really after the first sentence, if you're like me. Wonderful read, fantastical subject, poetic, smooth. My favorite book of all time.
