Lolita: Popular Penguins
Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
ISBN: 9780141037431
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 372
Dimensions: 181mm x 114mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years after its first publication, Lolita remains a powerful tale of perversion and love gone wrong.
ISBN: 9780141037431
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 372
Dimensions: 181mm x 114mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years after its first publication, Lolita remains a powerful tale of perversion and love gone wrong.