Lolita

Zusatztext Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged! fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita! whom 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? Informationen zum Autor Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics. Klappentext Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics. Zusammenfassung 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?

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.01.2006
• EAN: 9780141023496
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102349-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 180 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Classics; Penguin Red Classics; RED CLASSICS; Pocket Penguin Classics; Red Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Pocketbooks; Red Classics; Red Penguin Classics; Penguin Red Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary