Lolita
by: Vladimir Nabokov (Author)
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2011-04-07
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 024195164X
ISBN-13: 9780241951644
Book Description
”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?
Editorial Reviews
”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?
