Lolita
Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
ISBN: 9780241638439
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2023
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 206mm x 138mm x 31mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition
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.
ISBN: 9780241638439
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2023
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 206mm x 138mm x 31mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition
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.
