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From the rear cover
As it charts the hypnotized progress of Humbert Humbert, a hypercivilized and amoral European emigre, into the orbit of a treacherously lovely and utterly unimpressionable preteen, Lolita: A Screenplay gleefully demolishes a host of stereotypes - sexual, moral, and aesthetic. Not least among the casualties is the notion that cinema and literature are two separate spheres. For in his screenplay, Nabokov married the structural and narrative felicities of great cinema to prose as sensuously entrancing as any he had ever written, resulting in a work that will delight cineasts and Nabokovians alike.
First Edition Identification
Even though Vladimir Nabokov originally wrote the book in English in the United States, he could find no American publishers to accept the manuscript. Nabokov eventually found Olympia Press publishing house in France, and the 1955 first printing of about 5,000 copies sold out fairly quickly. The book was first published as green hardcovers in two volumes, with the price of "Francs : 900" stamped on back wrappers of each copy. Most later editions were printed as paperbacks with both volumes in one book.
Due to the infamous subject matter of the book, Lolita was quickly banned in much of Europe, but was finally published in the United States in 1958. The American edition found a receptive audience, as it became the first book after Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind to sell 100,000 copies in just three weeks. -
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- Title Lolita: A Screenplay
- Author Vladimir Nabokov
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Inte
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date August 26, 1997
- ISBN 9780679772552 / 0679772553
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.14 x 0.64 in (20.57 x 13.06 x 1.63 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Middle-aged men, Girls
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96030305
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- People Weekly, 10/14/2013, Page 59
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