{"product_id":"the-annotated-lolita","title":"The Annotated Lolita","description":"\u003cp\u003eNabokov's wise, ironic, and elegant masterpiece. - A controversial love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. - This annotated edition assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. - Edited with a preface, introduction, and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fascinatingly detailed.\" -Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLolita is also the story of a hypercivilized 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The CuriosiTea Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44077679247423,"sku":"9780679727293","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/0619\/3727\/files\/9780679727293.jpg?v=1791501135","url":"https:\/\/curiositeabookshop.com\/products\/the-annotated-lolita","provider":"The CuriosiTea Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}