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Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Essentials)
Vladimir Nabokov
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Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? Or is he all of these? Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.
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?
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Essentials
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241951644
SKU
V9780241951644
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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 Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
Reviews for Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Essentials)
You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent
Martin Amis
Observer
A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age
Independent
His command of words, his joy in them, his comic and ecstatic use of them...makes reading his work such an intense joy
Daily Telegraph
Lolita is more the shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny ... a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes
Time
A great novel ... It widens our own humanity
Guardian
There's no funnier monster in modern literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert. Going to hell in his company would always be worth the ride
Independent
Redeeming, spendid, headlong, endlessly comic and evocative
John Updike Rapturous ... incendiary
Time Out
Martin Amis
Observer
A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age
Independent
His command of words, his joy in them, his comic and ecstatic use of them...makes reading his work such an intense joy
Daily Telegraph
Lolita is more the shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny ... a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes
Time
A great novel ... It widens our own humanity
Guardian
There's no funnier monster in modern literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert. Going to hell in his company would always be worth the ride
Independent
Redeeming, spendid, headlong, endlessly comic and evocative
John Updike Rapturous ... incendiary
Time Out