But is your edition also "chastely revised" (it says so in the preface)? :) I take it that the 1991 version is, but possibly the 1970 (and following imprints) version wasn't.
It would make sense...
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But is your edition also "chastely revised" (it says so in the preface)? :) I take it that the 1991 version is, but possibly the 1970 (and following imprints) version wasn't.
It would make sense...
An adaptation of a book that, however you put it, deals very explicitly about a man having sex with a thirteen-year-old girl can only be sold to people who like to think and say they've read it but...
Could you recommend a version that is 100% not "revised" or otherwise tampered with?
I see the Appel edition is also published by Penguin, but I expect that'll be identical to the Vintage...
I paid about 20 euro for it. You see, I *wanted* that edition, because of the extensive notes. Actually, the notes were quite helpful; essential, given the complex nature of the book.
The...
Hello. I'm new here. I've just finished reading "Lolita" in the Vintage Books edition edited by Alfred Appel, Jr. (LXXV+457 pages). I never read prefaces or introductions before the book itself, so...