The cover belongs to a Penguin paperback: Penguin Books Ltd (7
April 2011). A cursory glance at Dieter Zimmer’s invaluable site (http://www.d-e-zimmer.de/CoveringLolita/LoCov.html)
does not seem to include this one.
I believe it is appropriate at this moment to draw attention to
Penguin Classics new hardback series (September 2012) of VN’s books in 22
volumes. Apart from “The Tragedy of Mister Morn” (together with Lolita: A
Screenplay in one volume), his other plays are unfortunately not included.
The very hefty but handsome volume of VN’s Collected Stories is
highly recommended, as it collects all the stories which DN englished and
published in various journals (e.g. The Word, Natasha
etc.).
A. Bouazza
From: Vladimir
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] {SIGHTING] Lolita cover
and quote
Unfortunately, I haven't more information about the
Lolita edition (below), with the sweetly naif cover.
It reached me with a quote, a striking sentence due to the
fundamental addition of "at last sight" and "at ever and ever sight" . Reading
it now, in isolation, I realize that didn't grasp their meaning then, and at
present! Does HH foresee that he'll never see Lolita again, or that at the time
of his writing it he felt that his coronaries were already failing? Does
the emphatic "at ever and ever" suggest a childish whimsical mood to American
ears, as it does to me?
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