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CLASSIC FICTION. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita 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
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Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
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- Released
- 2000
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- Title
- Lolita
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Publisher
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0141182539
- ISBN13
- 9780141182537
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Russia, Russian Literature
- First published
- 1955
- Original title
- Lolita
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
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- CLASSIC FICTION. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita 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