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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov author Martin Amis editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Everyman

Published:17th Dec '92

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Hardback gift edition of the best selling novel 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'.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: 9781857151336

Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm x 32mm

Weight: 350g

376 pages