Lolita.
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Lolita.
FIRST SINGLE EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
Paris [Jerusalem]: Steimatzky's Agency for the Olympia Press, 1958.
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First single volume and hardback edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. In near fine condition.
One of the most celebrated books in history, Nabokov's Lolita quickly attained classic status upon publication in 1955. Notable for its controversial subject, the novel was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne in addition to several adaptations for stage. "Lolita blazes with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce. Lolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human comedy" (Atlantic Monthly).
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