Salon.com > Vladimir Nabokov http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 23:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Vladimir Nabokov http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/nabokov_6/ http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/nabokov_6/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2000 22:35:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/nabokov Vladimir Nabokov is considered one of the century's greatest writers. His novel Lolita, first published in Paris in 1955, stirred up quite a bit of controversy and was banned in several countries. By 1958 it hit the American best-seller lists and is now considered a classic piece of twentieth-century fiction.

Lolita was the record of his love affair with the English language; Irons makes it a menage a trois." --Vogue

Listen to this excerpt from the Random House audiobook release of Lolita, a tale of obsession and seduction, read by award-winning actor Jeremy Irons.

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