Lolita

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One of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a strange troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature This Penguin Modern Classics edition

Includes:: an afterword by Craig Raine Poet & pervert Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita & seeks to possess her first carnally & then artistically out of love 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets' 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? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many

Dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece which is suffused with a savage humour & rich elaborate verbal textures Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason & Peter Sellers & again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons & Melanie Griffith Lolita has lost none of its power to shock & awe' Lolita is comedy subversive yet divine You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair ravished overcome nodding scandalized assent' Martin Amis Observer