Lolita
Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov
A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists. The endpapers for this title have been designed by Louisa Scarlet Gray. Following a failed marriage to a 'large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba', Humbert Humbert decides to move to America to work as a tutor. Much to his dismay, his plans change and he moves into a boarding house in Ramsdale, New Hampshire. But his disappointment quickly fades after he realises the duaghter of his landlady is the 'light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul Lo-li-ta.' The relationship blossoms between the man 'with a cesspool of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile' and the sassy, vivacious young girl in Nabokov's highly controversial take on the classic American road trip novel.
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'Lolita remains a great and serious work of literature... this classic should be read for its depiction of the darkness of the human soul.' CATHOLIC HERALD 'Only the bravest publication dared to print Nabokov's 1959 novel, now acclaimed as 'one of the most important works of the 20th century'... The novel is all the more disturbing because Nabokov writes with such exquisite, incandescent, mouth wateringly beautiful prose.' DAILY MAIL
Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. After studying French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, he launched his literary career in Berlin and Paris. In 1940 he moved to the United States, where he achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He died in 1977.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- : 0.366
- : 01 July 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm X 27mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Vladimir Nabokov
- : Hardback
- : 12-Sep
- : 813.54
- : 308