TY - BOOK AU - Nabokov,Vladimir Vladimirovich TI - Lolita T2 - Vintage international SN - 0679723161 (pbk.) : AV - PS 3527 N117l 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - New York PB - Vintage KW - Pedophiles KW - Fiction KW - Russian fiction KW - 20th century KW - Translations into Russian KW - Teenage girls KW - Sexuality KW - Pedophilia KW - Middle-aged men KW - Girls KW - Erotic fiction KW - gsafd KW - Love stories N2 - The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl. Awe and exhilaration--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 ER -