
Lolita - Penguin Essentials (Paperback)
Vladimir Nabokov (author)- We can order this from the publisher
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.
Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241951644
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 201 g
Dimensions: 181 x 111 x 22 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age * Independent *
His command of words, his joy in them, his comic and ecstatic use of them...makes reading his work such an intense joy * Daily Telegraph *
Lolita is more the shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny ... a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes * Time *
A great novel ... It widens our own humanity * Guardian *
There's no funnier monster in modern literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert. Going to hell in his company would always be worth the ride * Independent *
Redeeming, spendid, headlong, endlessly comic and evocative -- John Updike
Rapturous ... incendiary * Time Out *
You may also be interested in...
“My 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. Lolita stays in the mind long after one has put it down, mainly... 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, thinking that this man is purely just a pedophile but by the end... 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 author has the most amazing talent ever and kept me gripped...
More
Please sign in to write a review
Sign In / Register
Sign In
Download the Waterstones App
Would you like to proceed to the App store to download the Waterstones App?
Click & Collect
Alternatively, for multiple items you may find it easier to add to basket, then pay online and collect in as little as 2 hours, subject to availability.