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Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with ...Show synopsisVladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. 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? "A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age". ("Independent"). "You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent". (Martin Amis, "Observer"). "Redeeming, splendid, headlong, endlessly comic and evocative". (John Updike). "Lolita is more the shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny ...a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes". ("Time"). "His command of words, his joy in them, his comic and ecstatic use of them ...makes reading his work such an intense joy". ("Daily Telegraph"). "A great novel...It widens our own humanity". ("Guardian"). "There's no funnier monster in modern literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert. Going to hell in his company would always be worth the ride". ("Independent"). Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, before moving to Berlin in 1922. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. In 1940 he moved with his wife and son to America, where he worked as a lecturer and professor until he retired from teaching in 1959. Nabokov published his first novel in English, "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight", in 1941. His other books include "Ada"; "Laughter in the Dark"; "Despair"; "Pnin"; "Nabokov's Dozen"; "Invitation to a Beheading"; "Mary"; "Bend Sinister"; "Glory"; "Pale Fire"; "The Gift"; "The Luzhin Defense" and "Lolita", which brought him worldwide fame. In 1973 he was awarded the American National Medal for Literature. Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977.Hide synopsis
Description:Very good. Nice condition with minor indications of previous...Very good. Nice condition with minor indications of previous handling. Book selection as BIG as Texas.
Description:Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0517388081. First thus edition,...Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0517388081. First thus edition, with "A" on cp. Book is clearly unread, boards remain fairly stiff and do not flop open when held by the spine. Fine, free of former owner writing or bookplates or remainder marks. Non price clipped DJ is in very good condition, neither chipped or torn, light overall age tone with some darker tone to upper left half of rear panel.
Description:Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First printing thus...Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First printing thus hardcover with necessary 'a' present. Near fine with faint pencil shadow to front end paper and hint of soil at page edges, in near fine jacket with some light soiling and trace edge wear. 319 pages. Good looking copy of this edition of the classic work features jacket with photo of young "Lolita" in the O of title and to back panel.
Description:Near Fine. in Near Fine jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. A NEAR...Near Fine. in Near Fine jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. A NEAR FINE copy of this 1982 EDITION. In NEAR FINE jacket. First Printing of this edition. Nice copy.
Description:Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First Thus Edition. NF/NF....Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First Thus Edition. NF/NF. Scarce in Hardcover, purple cloth with gilt titles, DJ, 319 pp, very slight edgewear, else a clean and crisp copy. Protected in a Brodart cover.
This was a great book. I gave it 4 stars because is was somewhere between good and excellent. It was a little hard to follow at times because some of the words were a little over my head, Keep a dictionary handy.
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This book is probably one of the best I have ever read. Unlike most books, the so called bad guy gives you his point of view on his love for nymphs like Dolores Haze. It's an excellent read if you like psychological books and are willing to steep through the mind of a pedophile.
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You will fall in love with this book after the first chapter. Really after the first sentence, if you're like me. Wonderful read, fantastical subject, poetic, smooth. My favorite book of all time.
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