{"product_id":"the-annotated-lolita-revised-and-updated-by-vladimir-nabokov-and-alfred-appel-jr","title":"The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated by Vladimir Nabokov and Alfred Appel Jr.","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrade paperback. VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNabokov's wise, ironic, and elegant masterpiece. • A controversial love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. • This annotated edition 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinatingly detailed.\" -Edmund Morris,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen it was published in 1955, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLolita\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLolita\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56315114979494,"sku":null,"price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/annotated.webp?v=1774131935","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/the-annotated-lolita-revised-and-updated-by-vladimir-nabokov-and-alfred-appel-jr","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}