Lolita

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author: Vladimir Nabokov / Craig Raine

publishing house: Penguin

publication date: 1995 -1

language: English

number of pages: 368

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Vladimir Nabokov / Craig Raine

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Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537 .

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores 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; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.