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The Annotated Lolita : Revised and Updated by Vladimir Nabokov is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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.Amazon.com ReviewIn 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
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307788085
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Reference