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Lolita
  • Published: 13 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951644
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

Lolita

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7 Nov 2011
Paperback
13 May 2011
Paperback
6 Mar 2006
Paperback
22 Nov 2000
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28 Nov 2023
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7 Nov 2013
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29 Jan 1993
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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

'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?
  • Published: 13 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951644
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Vladimir Nabokov

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.

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Praise for Lolita

Rapturous ... incendiary

Time Out

Redeeming, spendid, headlong, endlessly comic and evocative

John Updike

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

A great novel ... It widens our own humanity

Guardian

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 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
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