Name: Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman' S Library Contemporary Classics Series)
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Author: Nabokov, Vladimir ; Amis, Martin
ISBN: 9780679410430

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Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman' S Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Introduction by

Martin Amis

Publisher

Everyman's Library

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6 x 13.5 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN

0679410430

ISBN13

9780679410430

Edition No.

Synopsis "Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman' S Library Contemporary Classics Series) "

When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration-along with heartbreak and mordant wit-abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love-love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. With an introduction by Martin Amis.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg into an aristocratic family in 1899, but his family background first, and later his personal interests, took him to Germany, England, France, and the United States, where he began a brilliant career as a poet, novelist, critic, and translator, while teaching Literature at several prestigious universities. His novels Mary (1926), King, Queen, Knave (1928), The Defense (1930), Glory (1932), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Despair and The Gift (both from 1934), Invitation to a Beheading (1938), The Eye (1937), The Enchanter (1939), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Ultima Thule (1942) preceded the monumental success of Lolita (1955) which allowed him to leave teaching and fully dedicate himself to his writing vocation. Later came Pnin (1957), Pale Fire (1962), Ada or Ardor (1969), Transparent Things (1972), Look at the Harlequins! (1974). Among his non-fiction works, his autobiography Speak, Memory (1951) and literary essays such as Nikolai Gogol (1944) or his courses on European literature, on Don Quixote or on Russian literature stand out. In 1961, he moved to Switzerland, where he died in 1977. In 2009, his son Dmitri agreed to the publication of his unfinished novel, The Original of Laura.

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Martin Amis

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Martin Amis (Swansea, 1949 - Florida, 2023) studied at Oxford and made a brilliant debut as a novelist with The Rachel Papers, awarded in 1973 with the Somerset Maugham Award, published in Spain (in 1985) by Anagrama. Throughout his career, he worked as a screenwriter and several of his novels were adapted for television. He is the author of short stories, essays, and novels. He has two autobiographical books: Experience and Koba the Dread. His last work was Inside Story.

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