Lolita
Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov
Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, "Lolita" is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.
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He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language. Anthony Burgess Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears. The Guardian There's no funnier monster in modern literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert. The Independent
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.512
- : 01 January 2012
- : 194mm X 129mm X 35mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : 480
- : 1
- : Hardback
- : Vladimir Nabokov
