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Best Romance Books of All Time LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov | All-Time bestseller Romance Fiction Book | From All-time Russian Bestseller Author of Books Like: Lolita / Pnin / Speak, Memory

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Lolita book,Lolita
Publisher : DD BOOKS
Page : 302 pages
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Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789395279550

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Best Romance Books of All Time LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov | All-Time bestseller Romance Fiction Book | From All-time Russian Bestseller Author of Books Like: Lolita / Pnin / Speak, Memory by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Lolita book,Lolita Pdf

From the Author of Books Like: 1.Lolita 2.Pnin 3.Speak, Memory 4.Laughter in the Dark 5.Invitation to a Beheading 6.The Luzhin Defense 7.Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 8.Despair 9.The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov 10. Pale Fire Best Romance Books of All Time LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov About the Book: Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores 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 looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust. About the Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to lepidoptery, and had a big interest in chess problems. Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, and is at any rate his most widely known one, exhibiting the love of intricate wordplay and descriptive detail that characterized all his works. Lolita was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, Speak, Memory (1951), was listed eighth on the publisher's list of the 20th century's greatest nonfiction. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times. Valueble Customers Review: Written in a confessional style, Nabokov’s masterwork tells the story of a middle-aged intellectual, Humbert Humbert, and his hebephiliac obsession with a twelve-year-old girl named Delores Haze -- whom he calls Lolita. Early in the novel, Humbert is renting a room from Charlotte Haze (Lolita’s mother,) and Charlotte starts sending him heavy hints that she is interested in a more intimate relationship. While the Humbert that we get to know as readers is a creepy, obsessive stalker, in person the man comes across as articulate and suave – in other words, a fine marriage prospect for a single mom in the market for a husband. Eventually, Humbert does decide to marry Charlotte -- not because he loves her, but because he is obsessed with Delores / Lolita and wants to stay close to the girl no matter what it takes. One day after the couple has settled into marriage, Humbert comes in to find that Charlotte is freaked out; she has read his journal and now knows what the reader is already aware of: that Humbert isn’t right in the head, that he secretly detests Charlotte, and that he desperately wants to possess Lolita. This would be the end of the line for Humbert’s ruse, but Charlotte, in a mad flurry of preparation to get away from Humbert, dashes in front of a speeding vehicle as she is crossing the road to post letters that would have outed Humbert as a hebephiliac cretin. But Charlotte is not around to tell the story, and Humbert is handed the unopened letters (no one has any reason to think he’s anything but a loving and devoted husband, so good is his mask.) At the time of Charlotte’s death, Lolita is away at camp. While Humbert’s obsession may have been news to Charlotte, it seemed the mother was always keen to keep her daughter at bay. In part the mother – daughter never got along, but, on some level, Charlotte seemed uncomfortable having Lolita around Humbert, whether Charlotte was just jealous of the girl’s youth or whether she had some inkling of what was really going on can’t be known. [We only have Humbert’s perspective, and he is an admittedly unreliable narrator – though he does offer his own speculations about other character’s mindset, and – as will be discussed – his unreliability is in specific domains. In some ways, he’s unexpectedly forthright.] At any rate, Humbert takes Lolita on a road trip, at first telling her only that her mother was not well, and not until an emotional outburst much later, letting the girl know her mother is dead. [Lolita seems to suspect that Humbert killed Charlotte, but seems unperturbed by it – perhaps because she never got along with her mother, or perhaps, because she’s a bit of a psychopath, herself.] After some time on the road, a time during which Humbert both has his way with Lolita and discovers that she isn’t the innocent little girl he’d imagined, Humbert and Lolita settle into a town where Lolita can go to a girl’s school and where they aren’t known. This settling in creates a number of challenges for the possessive Humbert because he would ideally like Lolita to spend no time whatsoever with other males and as little time as possible with other females, or at least with females who might learn about their unusual living arrangement. For instance, Humbert has to be convinced to let Lolita participate in a school play via a meeting with faculty and administration from the school. Intriguingly, shortly before the play is to take place, Lolita insists they take their show on the road again. [There are many points at which it seems Lolita is playing Humbert, but this is the most intense subversion of the power dynamic. Lolita makes clear that they are leaving, and they will be going where she wants. She has come to understand her leverage, and is willing to exploit it.] In the second part of the novel, as they are traveling around, Humbert begins to notice that they are being followed. Humbert describes cars tailing them, and men running away or talking to Lolita while Humbert has stepped away from the girl. Of course, we know Humbert is unreliable, and even he is not sure how much he can trust some of these “sightings” as real, as opposed to being products of his imagination. As we are on the subject of Humbert’s unreliable narration, it’s worth discussing that the particular nature of Humbert’s unreliable narration is a central to our relationship to the Humbert character. One might expect an unreliable narrator to hide or rationalize bad behavior, but Humbert not only lets the reader in on his bad behavior but frequently lets us know that he knows what he’s doing is societally (and / or morally) unacceptable. Knowing that he’s behaving badly or irrationally, and still making said choices would seem like it should make Humbert more despicable, but that’s not necessarily the case, at least not fully. Because Humbert is forthright in some regard and because he is so articulate and sensible (if not rational,) one’s reaction to him becomes complicated. I should point out that Humbert does rationalize his behavior, but he does so in a specific way, by acting as though his relationship with Lolita is a loving and, at least somewhat, healthy one. This distorted worldview can be seen in his perception of Clare Quilty, who – to the reader – is Humbert’s mirror image; but to Humbert, Quilty is a monster. On their second road trip, Lolita falls ill and Humbert must take her to the hospital. As he is taking care of business, an unknown individual takes possession of Lolita. Searching high and low, Humbert can’t discover who took her and where they’ve gone. Then one day, after years have passed, Humbert gets a letter from Dolly Schiller (the now married Delores Haze, a.k.a. Lolita) asking for money to get them through until her husband’s new job starts paying. Humbert goes to her, intent on killing the man who dragged her away from him, but – once there – he realizes that Dolly’s husband wasn’t involved in her disappearance. Humbert begs Dolly to come back to him, only to realize that he is to her as Charlotte had been to him, a relationship she put up with to get what she wanted (or, with youthfully naiveté, thought she wanted.) Humbert willingly gives Dolly some money and goes, but only after she tells him who actually absconded with her, i.e. Clare Quilty. The concluding sequence of the novel involves Humbert’s confrontation with Quilty -- surreal and almost comic as it is. This book is definitely worth reading. Nabokov uses language with masterful poeticism, and builds a fascinating character in Humbert. Reader’s who loved “Confederacy of Dunces” will recognize that one doesn’t have to like a lead character to find their life-story intensely readable. But, while everyone hates Ignatius Reilly, one’s feelings for Humbert may be more complicated. He’s both detestable and sympathetic at the same time. The version of the book that I read had a nice epilogue by Nabokov, himself. While I don’t always find such ancillary matter is useful in works of fiction, in this case I got a lot out of it because the book is quite nuanced. If nothing else, I learned that Nabokov reviled all the “symbolism” that critics liked to attribute to his works. I’d highly recommend this book. While it deals in challenging matter, Nabokov leaves a great deal to the reader’s imagination, and so it’s not graphic or explicit as one might expect from a book that’s been so often banned. [Of course, being so banned was reason enough for me to read it.]

Véra

Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307781765

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both “monumental” (The Boston Globe) and “utterly romantic” (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff’s Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov—the émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory—wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.

Lolita

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530070988

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

This book is published in Russian. "Lolita" - a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Written in English, published in 1955 in the Parisian publishing house "Olympia Press," then, in the second half of the 1960s, the author translated into Russian. It is considered one of the most outstanding books of XX century: it is called the fourth in the list of the hundred best novels of all time according to The Modern Library, and hit the list of the hundred best novels of the century, according to the magazine Time. Humbert Humbert, one of the most famous heroes of the VV Nabokov, obsessed with passion for Dolores Haze schoolgirl that he be named Lolita. The girl seems to him the earthly incarnation of the first lover, who died in adolescence Anabella Lee. "Eternal Love" and the thirst for possession pushes Humbert on crime: to be inseparable with Lolita, he provokes the death of her mother and posing as foster father of the girl starts with her on a perilous journey ...

Lolita

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307744029

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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 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.

Lolita: A Screenplay

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307787606

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Lolita: A Screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The screenplay for Kubrik's 1962 film tells the story of an older man's obsession with a young girl.

"Light of My Life"

Author : James D. Hardy, Jr.,Ann Martin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786485505

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Vladimir Nabokov, one of the 20th century's greatest novelists, is particularly remembered for his masterpiece Lolita. The present work examines the enduring themes of Lolita and places the novel in its biographical, social, cultural and historical contexts. Of particular interest are questions of love in all of its manifestations, the central problem of time in the book, and memory as it is explored in fictional memoir or, in this case, the central protagonist's "confession."

Lolita

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679410430

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

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.

The Annotated Lolita

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679727293

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The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The annotated text of this modern classic. It 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.

Lolita

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : American fiction
ISBN : PSU:000020607814

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The New Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015052983114

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The New Encyclopædia Britannica

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015053532225

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The New Encyclopædia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

V.1-12 Micropaedia: Ready reference -- V.13-29 Macropaedia: Knowledge in depth -- V.[30] Propaedia: Outline of knowledge -- V.[31] Index, A-K -- V.[32] Index, L-Z.

Vera

Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0375755349

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award–winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov’s] wife, showing us just how pivotal Nabokov’s marriage was to his hermetic existence and how it indelibly shaped his work.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME “Monumental.”—The Boston Globe “Utterly romantic.”—New York magazine “Deeply moving.”—The Seattle Times Stacy Schiff brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time: Vladimir Nabokov, émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory, and his beloved wife, Véra. Nabokov wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, and third for no one at all. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the twentieth century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.

Lolita

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015027241457

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Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pdf

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)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 "From the Hardcover edition."

The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015020851328

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This encyclopedia includes a two-volume index, a 12-volume Micropaedia (Ready reference), a 17-volume Macropaedia (Knowledge in depth), and the Propaedia.

The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015034547342

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