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Lolita

Written by: Vladimir Nabokov, Claire Messud - introduction
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons, Cassandra Campbell
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The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. • With a new introduction by Claire Messud

“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession 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. Classics Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Scary Witty Heartfelt Comedy
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What the critics say

One of TIME Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels

"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." —The Atlantic Monthly

"Intensely lyrical and wildly funny." —Time

"The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathy…The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art." —The New Yorker

"A revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors." —San Francisco Chronicle
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Jeremy Irons absolutely slayed this. This is one of the best audiobook performances I’ve ever heard, if not the best.

As for the book itself, this was a surprise. I was prepared for something completely different. It was twisted, surely, but not how the reader may expect. An instant favorite and obvious classic.

Simply amazing

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Definitely an intense story, but so well written and the reader did an amazing job. I can’t wait to read more work from this author, this is the book that got me back into reading.

Amazing.

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It’s hard to review a book when this is its content. But it is a unique vision everyone should experience if they can. And the narration was amazing.

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Very good narration for this well written book.
I went through a myriad of emotions why I went on this journey with HH. If the subject matter isn't one that would cause you harm, I would recommend.

My only issue is the description of the novel. This is not a love story by any means.

Lovely and grotesque

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Yes, the Narrator’s French is atrocious, but then he’s a Brit. It didn’t bother me to the point that I wouldn’t recommend this audiobook.
Great story- was hesitant when I read it was about a pedophile. I shouldn’t have been.
There’s a reason why this book is a classic.

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