Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita 1955 Second US Printing G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York)

Description: Lolita [second US printing] by Vladimir Nabokov 1955 second printing, G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York), 6 x 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, grey-green pattern paper-covered boards over black cloth spine, gilt lettering to spine, red endpapers, 319 pp. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with bumping to all four tips. Very slight foxing or light staining to a handful of pages. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a soiled, creased, chipped and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre 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 hyper civilized 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.

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