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Article: "LOLITA' TURNS 50; PUBLISHER RELEASES SPECIAL EDITION OF NABOKOV'S CLASSIC.(CNY)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2005
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Byline: Kim Curtis The Associated Press
Lolita was 12 when Vladimir Nabokov brought her to life as the obsession of her stepfather, a middle-aged man who calls her "light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin. My soul. ... Lo. Lee. Ta."
After three generations, readers remain relentlessly drawn to Nabokov's opening lines - more poetry than prose. They remain equally repelled by Humbert Humbert, a child molester who essentially held his stepdaughter captive; he is as despicable today as he was in 1955.
"Lolita," a deceptively thin volume, has sold 50 million copies. Vintage Books has sold all 50,000 copies of a new, special 50th-anniversary ...