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''Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine'' Martin Amis, Observer

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, ''to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets''. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert''s fixation is one of many dimensions in Nabokov''s dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.

''There''s no funnier monster in literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert'' Independent

Lolita

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 26 January 2006
      ISBN-13 9780141023496
      978-0141023496
      ISBN-10 014102349X
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      Fiction Books by Vladimir Nabokov

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine'' Martin Amis, Observer

      Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, ''to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets''. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert''s fixation is one of many dimensions in Nabokov''s dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.

      ''There''s no funnier monster in literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert'' Independent

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