Vladimir Nabokov s Lolita

• Author : Ellen Pifer
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2003
• Total pages : 209
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : Midway through last century, Lolita burst on the literary scene--a Russian exile's extraordinary gift to American letters and the New World. The scandal provoked by the novel's subject--the sexual passion of a middle-aged European for a twelve-year-old American girl--was quickly upstaged by the critical attention it received from readers, scholars, ...

• Author : Vladimir Nabokov
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release Date : 2012-07-27
• Total pages : 336
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts ...

• Author : Graham Vickers
• Publisher : Chicago Review Press
• Release Date : 2008-08
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : In the summer of 1958, a 12-year-old girl took the world by storm--"Lolita" was published in the United States--and since then, her name has been taken in vain to serve a wide range of dubious ventures, both artistic and commercial. Offering a full consideration of not only "the Lolita effect" ...

• Author : Elena Rakhimova-Sommers
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2021-03-15
• Total pages : 208
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era and Online seeks to answer: how do we balance analysis of Lolita's brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? Innovative assignments, creative-writing exercises, and new interpretations give readers an opportunity to engage with and reimagine the novel....

• Author : Anna Pilińska
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release Date : 2015-09-04
• Total pages : 155
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : "This book offers a comparative analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: namely, the original novel (1955), the script written by the novelist himself and published as Lolita: A Screenplay (1974), and Stanley Kubrick's film based on Lolita's storyline (1962). Kubrick's final product oscillates between adaptation and interpretation, as it draws from ...

• Author : Vladimir Nabokov
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release Date : 2013-11-28
• Total pages : 544
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminating the elaborate verbal ...

• Author : Dakota Lane
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2008-11-25
• Total pages : 194
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : Sixteen-year-olds Chelsea and Miya have a lot in common, from their love of blogging, loss of loved ones, and the Shonin rainbow warrior books, to nationalities, even though they are half-way across the world from each other....

• Author : Jenny Minton Quigley
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2021-03-16
• Total pages : 456
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on Vladimir Nabokov’s perennially provocative book—with original contributions from a stellar cast of prominent twenty-first century writers. In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this ...

• Author : John Bertram,Yuri Leving
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2013-07-19
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep ...

• Author : Bill James
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release Date : 2012-09-06
• Total pages : 160
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : The second title in the popular Harpur and Iles series. Five teenage girls have been raped and murdered, and the criminal is still at large. Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, assigned to the case, is a tough hunter, but so is the 'Lolita man' watching the school playgrounds. Now it ...

• Author : Sandra Pollard
• Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
• Release Date : 2019
• Total pages : 160
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : On August 8, 1970, the Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound were herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island by explosives, spotter planes and speedboats in a coordinated effort to capture seven young whales. Between 1964 and 1976, dozens of these now-endangered orcas were torn from their home and sent to marine parks around ...

• Author : VLADIMIR NABOKOV
• Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
• Release Date : 2020-04-05
• Total pages : 289
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : “Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,” such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates. “Humbert Humbert,” their author, had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16, 1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled ...

• Author : Lotus Rose
• Publisher : Death Pout
• Release Date : 2015-08-29
• Total pages : 120
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : 12-year-old Nina is an aspiring supermodel, actress and pop star who has everything going for her. Wealth. A magical scar down the side of her face. A fiance willing to do anything for her. All she needs now is fame. She’s willing to do anything for it. Anything. Even ...

• Author : Владимир Набоков
• Publisher : Litres
• Release Date : 2022-03-31
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : Владимир Набоков – знаменитый русский писатель, перу которого принадлежат также замечательные произведения на английском языке. «Лолита» – один из самых читаемых романов в мире.Предлагаем читателям неадаптированный текст романа. Книга предназначена студентам вузов, слушателям курсов иностранных языков и всем любителям современной литературы. Роман печатается с примечаниями и словарем....

• Author : Sarah Weinman
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release Date : 2018-09-11
• Total pages : 320
• ISBN : 0195150325

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Summary : Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, ...