Lolita
Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Paperback Published on: 03/02/2000
£9.99
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Enter the wacky world of Humbert Humbert!
How can such a repulsive subject matter be at the heart of such an enjoyable read? It's a question those who haven't read this masterpiece will continue to... READ MORE
Whether you like it or not, this is a love story
Humbert loves Lolita because he cannot forget the girl with whom he fell in love with as a child; Lolita loves him because she has no father and may as wel... READ MORE
Whether you like it or not, this is a love story
Humbert loves Lolita because he cannot forget the girl with whom he fell in love with as a child; Lolita loves him because she has no father and may as wel... READ MORE
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
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780141182537
- Number of pages: 336
- Weight: 234g
- Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 14 mm
Customer Reviews
View allMy favourite novel
Lolita is haunting, delicate and charming, and all the more unnerving for being these things, considering that the narrator is a deranged child-molester. L... READ MORE
Questions your morals
As an English Student, this book has been debated about greatly, and so I had to read it. It is a very clever narrative, as you start off, rightly so, thin... READ MORE
Brilliant- changed the way I think
I read this book when I was 18, so three years ago, and I still love it now and enjoy re-reading it.
This is a book which is extremely well written, the au... READ MORE
Excellent but not good, oh no...
This book is a brilliant insight into the mind of one Humbert Humbert - the lover of Lolita. He argues about the age related taboos, rails against laws but... READ MORE
An all time favourite
Lolita is quite simply a genius piece of writing. When I first picked up the book (and truth be told it was due to the sheer amount of Instagram posts I ha... READ MORE
An uncomfortable but important read
Tabloid media hysteria abut paedophilia makes the middle aged, male reader somewhat embarrassed to admit reading this book and certainly uneasy discussing ... READ MORE
A thinker and a debater
This is a vintage classic so it has to be read, different people with different backgrounds and belief systems will have differing opinions. However no one... READ MORE
Beautiful
A tale of obssession. A road book. And the time they spent in Beardsley is oddly cosy. The imagery is beautiful and the writing is so so beautiful and you ... READ MORE
My favourite book of all time
Lolita is haunting, delicate and charming, and all the more unnerving and twisted for being these things. Lolita stays in the mind long after one has put i... READ MORE
intense, yet beautiful
Lolita is an enchanting novel which explores the concept of being 'in love with love'. Humbert Humbert sets his case to the reader in order to persuade his... READ MORE
Brilliant read!
I read this book last year after a friend recommended it. Though a very sensitive subject [paedophilia] it is a fantastic book, extremely well written and ... READ MORE
Disturbingly romantic and beautifully twisted
Nabokov's Lolita, in my view, is a literary masterpiece that details the sadistic relationship between a man and his step daughter whom he sees as a whimsi... READ MORE
one of my favourite books ever
such a tragic yet delicate novel. the trick of this book is that humbert writes in a poetic manner, trying disguise the disturbing truth. i would recommend... READ MORE
Obscure yet beautiful through Nabokov's imagery
I read this book two years ago after hearing what the plot of Nabokov's novel was about, although questionable and completely obscure, I can honestly say t... READ MORE