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Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

by VladimirNabokov (Author)

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    International Edition 1992

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    Paperback 1990

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    Hardcover 1999

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Synopsis

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? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.

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Format: International Edition
 Pages: 376
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Everyman
Published: 17 Dec 1992
ISBN 10: 185715133X
ISBN 13: 9781857151336
Book Overview: Hardback gift edition of the best selling novel Lolita

Author Bio
One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) was born in St Petersburg, but left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. His first novel in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941. His other books include Ada or Ardor (1969), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Pale Fire (1962), the short story collection Details of a Sunset (1976) and Lolita (1955), his best-known novel.