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Lolita
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? This is a silver-tongued poet or a pervert?
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Reissue of one of the best-known novels of the 20th century – the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve-year-old Lolita.
'You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.'
Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle-aged college professor. Haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and illegally) in lust with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter, Dolores Haze. Obsessed, he'll do anything, will commit any crime, to possess his Lolita.
But once Lolita belongs to Humbert, once he has got what he wants, what next? And what of Lolita? How long is she willing to be possessed?
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_Lolita_, often lauded as a masterpiece, is celebrated for its artistry and complex narrative. Reviews highlight the novel's dark humour and the memorable character of Humbert Humbert. It's praised for its impact on readers, both scandalous and enlightening, with Nabokov's dazzling linguistic prowess adding to the intense joy of reading it.
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ISBN: 9780241953242
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 August 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 256g
Pages: 368
About the Author
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.
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