Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir - 1955

E-290: Putnam. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1955. 319 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ Is chipped and worn with a stain present to the crown of the DJ spine and the top edge of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (stain present to the top edge of the boards). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story 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. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899 – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose. He was also a capable lepidopterist and chess composer. E-290; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages .