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Lolita

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Jeremy Irons

11 Hours 29 Minutes

Random House (Audio)

September 2005

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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.

“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.

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  • Anonymous

    This is a narsacisstic's dictation of his journey....horrible and horrible for the human soul. Not that the subject is taboo....the deplorable self absorbed, self importance....makes you want to punch him in the face. No matter how well written...it is blah. Weak...

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  • Edwin Jones

    At times titillating, but more often than not, profoundly disturbing. This book is incredibly well written, and Jeremy Iron's reading is nothing but superb. Like Shakespeare's plays, Lolita definitely benefits from being heard rather than read. It is written as a stream of consciousness, with the narrator jumping around from remembrance to remembrance, often going off on semi-related tangents before returning to what he was originally talking about. I would only recommend reading or listening to this book to people who are not uncomfortable with pulling on the skin of a sick individual and walking around for 10 hours or so.

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  • Anonymous

    Stunning piece of art. If you love good literature you have to read this timeless masterpiece.

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  • agui

    The characters and story are complex and addictive. You get into the story and see all the discrepencies in how people think and act. I cant wait to read it again. Loved it.

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  • Gaylord R.

    One of the best books I’ve ever read.

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  • H. Michael R.

    Overrated classic, ironically sustained by societal obsession with its subject matter. The prose may be better appreciated in book form than audio.

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  • Gehan E.

    disturbing read. however that's the novel. Well read.

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  • Natalia.Inez

    Wow! Bravo, both to Nabokov and Irons. 10/10. A masterpiece

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  • MikeCruz

    This audiobook is fantastic!

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  • Milton K.

    Who cares how brillant a paedophile is, or the quality of his prose. Triumphallist Nabakov hS the moral valence of a coral reef; the story, the book itself, has blasted lives, forever.

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