Annotated Lolita

An annotated edition of Lolita. It attempts to elaborate on the verbal textures and show how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. It also provides observations on the novel's artifice games and verbal patternings.|An annotated edition of Lolita. It attempts to elaborate on the verbal textures and show how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. It also provides observations on the novel's artifice games and verbal patternings.|Vladimir Nabokov (...|Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) born in St Petersburg exiled in Cambridge Berlin and Paris became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940 he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards and died in Montreux Switzerland. All his major works - novels stories an autobiography poems plays lectures essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.