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Lolita [electronic resource]. Vladimir Nabokov.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739345672 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (10 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, 2005.
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| General Note: | Unabridged. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Jeremy Irons. |
| Summary, etc.: | The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. “The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.” — The New Yorker One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. |
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| Subject: | Fiction. Classic Literature. Literature. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Lolita
One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Stanford, Wellesley, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. Jeremy Irons plays the role of Humbert Humbert in the latest film version of Lolita . He has also starred in such films as Stealing Beauty , The French Lieutenant's Woman and Reversal of Fortune , for which he won an Academy Award. He won a Tony Award for his role in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing , and his performance in Brideshead Revisited was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe.
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