Nabokov Vladimir Lolita

NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. LOLITA. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955.
Gray pattern boards over quarter cloth black spine, gilt title and publisher to spine. Top edge red, with red end papers. DW not price clipped, pale yellow, black and red lettering, darker yellow decoration behind lettering, "A Novel By The Author of PNIN," stamped to front. Mild soil, slight chipping to head of spine, picture of Vladimir Nabokov, and biography to rear dw. Original price of $5.00, without "Complete Unexpurgated Edition," to front panel. First Edition, First Issue. In mylar jacket. 318 pp, 8 vo. Nice clean copy. Please click for image.

First American edition Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book about a middle aged professor's physical infatuation, with an adolescent coquettish girl. The American critics voiced a broad variety of reviews running the gamut from humorous to perverse. "It has been described as "Old Europe debauching young America," and as "Young America debauching Old Europe," as "a joke on our national cant about youth," "a cutting expose' of chronic American adolescence and shabby materialism," "a diabolic masterpiece." It was adapted to film in 1962 directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring James Mason, Sue Lyon and Shelley Winters. Cloth Near Fine in Very Good DJ

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Vladimir Nabokov Selected Letters 1940-1977. New York U. S. A.: Harvest Books, 1989.
Marfree, acidfree Fine illus 1stEd; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 1.62 x 8.86 x 5.71 Inches; 582 pages; Online ReviewIf Vladimir Nabokov's fiction merits any criticism, it is for its iciness. The master himself declared in a 1977 BBC interview, "My characters cringe as I come near them with my whip. I have seen a whole avenue of imagined trees losing their leaves at the threat of my passage." Nabokov's correspondence, however, reveals a far warmer individual, though one ever-ready with a verbal shiv. This volume begins with a 1923 letter to his mother, written while he was a farmhand in the French Alps, and ends with a 1977 letter sent to his wife, Vera, for Mother's Day: "My dearest, your roses, your fragrant rubies, glow red against a background of spring rain..." Nabokov's son, Dmitri, and Matthew Bruccoli have created the fullest, and by far the most amusing, portrait of the serious artist as trickster. There's the famous letter to Burma-Vita, in which Nabokov offers the company an advertising jingle (alas, they turned him down). There's the best, and most amusing, account of "l'affaire Lolita." Here is his response to his New Yorker editor, Katharine White: "Let me thank you very warmly for your frank and charming letter about LOLITA. But after all how many are the memorable literary characters whom we would like our teen-age daughters to meet? Would you like our Patricia to go on a date with Othello? Would we like our Mary to read the New Testament temple against temple with Raskolnikov? Would we like our sons to marry Emma Rouault, Becky Sharp or La belle dame sans merci?" In another letter, however, he takes care to thank White for a "chubby check." (One wishes this phrase had gained greater circulation.) Nabokov again and again comes off as a difficult author, challenging his publishers left, right, and center over issues large (and there were many) and as well as those that were niggling. Calling the British paperback cover of Laughter in the Dark "atrocious, disgusting, and badly drawn besides having nothing to do whatever with the contents of the book," he tells his U.K. publisher, "I would appreciate if you would use your influence and have them substitute a pretty dark-haired girl, or a palmtree, or a winding road, or anything else for this tasteless abomination." Still, one is most often convinced that he's right, even when he makes the large claim that the French film Les Nymphettes infringes on his rights, "since this term was invented by me for the main character in my novel Lolita." Not only is this volume endlessly quotable, it also reads like a great epistolary novel--fraught with high thought, high drama, and the delightfully unexpected. Who would have guessed that Nabokov would ask Hugh Hefner, "Have you ever noticed how the head and ears of your Bunny resemble a butterfly in shape, with an eyespot on one hindwing?". 978-0156936101.

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NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. Lolita: A Screenplay. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York: 1961. ISBN: 0070457328

213 pages. Vladimir Nabokov's notorious, hilarious erotic murder mystery takes the form of a monologue by his hero, Humbert Humbert, as he attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. Humbert's cross-country flight with his adored nymphet ends with her betrayal of him with his rival, the evil Quilty, who pursues Lolita not out of love but out of lust and selfishness, and who functions as a kind of double for the more pure-hearted (if perverse) Humbert. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The dustjacket flap is bent.

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Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita die geschichte einer Leidenschaft von Vladimir Nabokov, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Reinbek bei Hamburg 1959 ISBN: 3499239957

543 18 cm Leineinband, Leichte Gebrauchsspuren, "Der Roman schildert die unselige Leidenschaft des 1910 in Frankreich geborenen Literaturwissenschaftlers und Privatlehrers Humbert Humbert zu der kindhaften und gleichzeitig frühreifen 12-jährigen Dolores (Lolita) Haze. Humbert ist dem Mädchen zwischen neun und vierzehn Jahren verfallen; deren vollkommene Inkarnation findet er in Lolita. Um in ihrer Nähe bleiben zu können, heiratet er ihre Mutter, die Witwe Charlotte Haze; er verursacht indirekt deren Tod und beginnt mit Lolita aus Furcht vor Entdeckung seiner verbotenen Leidenschaft ein unstetes Reiseleben durch die USA. Humbert Humbert stellt bald fest, dass sie verfolgt werden, und eines Tages ist Lolita, offenbar mit dem Verfolger im Bunde, verschwunden. Als er sie nach Jahren wiedersieht ,verheiratet, schwanger und in ärmlichen Verhältnissen lebend , weigert sie sich, zu ihm zurückzukehren, doch gelingt es ihm, den Namen des damaligen Nebenbuhlers zu erfahren. Es ist der Dramatiker Clare Quilty, den er in einer furiosen Racheszene erschiesst. Mit sprachlicher und stilistischer Virtuosität geschrieben, zahlreiche literarische Anspielungen aufweisend und mit distanzierender Ironie unterlegt, ist der Roman weder Schilderung der Überschreitung moralischer Schranken noch Diagnose einer dekadenten Epoche, sondern am ehesten die Geschichte einer tragischen Leidenschaft, die ihren Gegenstand nur um den Preis der Zerstörung erreichen kann. Versuche, den Roman allegorisch zu deuten, wonach sein Thema v. a. in der Konfrontation des alten Europa (Humbert Humbert) mit dem jungen Amerika (Lolita) zu sehen sei, hat Nabokov zurückgewiesen"Auszüge aus dem Buch

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