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Lolita

A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nabokov, Vladīmir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage, 1989, c1955.
Edition:	1st Vintage international ed.
Subjects:	Middle-aged men > Fiction. Girls > Fiction. Erotic fiction. Love stories.
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Summary:	A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him
Physical Description:	317 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0679723161 : PAP
Author Notes:	VLADIMIR NABOKOV was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. After studying French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, he launched his literary career in Berlin and Paris. In 1940 he moved to the United States, here he achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. Lolita, arguably his most famous novel, was first published, by the Olympia Press, Paris, on September 15, 1955, and became a controversial success. Nabokov died in Montreux Switzerland in 1977.