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
(Original Review, 1992-02-10)I can speak and write English pretty well, and I am completely lacking in Nabokov's talent for prose. I do, however, wonder whether the fact that English was his fourth or fifth language may have enabled him to approach writing in a different way. He seems to be very awa...
Lolita was... An experience. It was definitely too slow for my taste, though at the same time very well written and moving: I haven't been this angry at anything in a while, nor as disappointed in its ultimate end. After all Lolita's been through, she deserved a much better fate. It might not be t...
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...
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...
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