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Lolita
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Lolita
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. 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?
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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?
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Vladimir Nabokov is praised for masterfully transforming the English language, creating a narrative that balances humour with poignant tragedy. His character Humbert Humbert is depicted as a complex and tragic figure, evoking both laughter and tears through the author's skillful storytelling.
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ISBN: 9780141182537
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 February 2000
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 234g
Pages: 336
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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