Lolita [electronic resource]
Vladimir Nabokov2012
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'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine ... You read Lolita sprawling limply in
your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent' Martin Amis,
Observer
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and
seeks to possess her, first carnally and 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 and rich, elaborate
verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and
Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and
Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.
Main title:
Lolita [electronic resource] / Vladimir Nabokov
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (336 pages,)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141391601
Language:
English
BRN:
436745
Electronic access:
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |