Lolita
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The novel that first established Nabokov's reputation with a large audience tour-de-force of comic satire on sex and the American ways of life.
4.0
Maurice Couturier Book order (chronological)
Maurice Couturier was a distinguished literary scholar and translator whose work primarily focused on modern English and American literature. He was renowned for his in-depth exploration of Vladimir Nabokov's oeuvre, to which he dedicated his pioneering doctoral thesis and numerous publications. Couturier's approach was characterized by an interdisciplinary scope, blending literary theory with critical analysis and contributing to the rehabilitation of the author as a central figure in critical discourse. Beyond his academic career, which spanned universities in both France and the United States, he also engaged in translation and played an active role in publishing prestigious literary editions.
Out of the Shelter
- 270 pages
- 10 hours of reading
While Timothy Young's adolescence occurs in the constricted world of post-war Britain, his older sister Kath escapes the world of ration coupons and vaguely perceived dissatisfactions. She works for the American army in Europe, enjoying the opulence of life on American pay.
3.8Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack’s dying, estranged sister, it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to the hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Hawaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love. From the Trade Paperback edition.
3.5When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange.
4.1