Lolita
by:
Vladimir Nabokov (author)
Craig Raine (translator)
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his `Lolita` both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy. Amazon.com description: Product Description: Humbert Humbert...
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The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his `Lolita` both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy. Amazon.com description: Product Description: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he`ll do anything to possess. 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?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141182537 (0141182539)
Publish date: 2000-02-03
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 378
Edition language: English
I loved it. I had always assumed that I would hate it, knowing that it was about an older man taking advantage of a very young girl. What I hadn't realized was that it is a book knowingly written from the villain's point of view. I had thought it would be all excuses and romanticism. That stuff is t...
Wspaniała literatura. Obowiązkowa pozycja dla każdego miłośnika książek.
3/2 - Just like reading a paedophiles' autobiography. Full of justification as to why it's not his fault for feeling the way he feels for 'his Lolita'. To be continued...10/2 - I don't know if the writing is 'beautiful' enough to make up for the discomforting feeling of reading a paedophiiles' jou...
In this classic novel a middle-aged guy who calls himself Humbert Humbert is a pedophile. He falls in love with a young girl and is determined to get her, no matter the price. The general idea of the novel is so well-known I will not spend much time on it. The modern Western society programmed to h...
Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; bu...
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