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Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Essentials)
Vladimir Nabokov
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Description for Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Essentials)
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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
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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
... Read more