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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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Description for Lolita
Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?! Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 28. Weight in Grams: 266.
'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, Observer
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's fixation is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.
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Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141023496
SKU
V9780141023496
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About 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 ... Read more
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