Lolita - Rilegato

Nabokov, Vladimir

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0141197013 ISBN 13: 9780141197012

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2012

Riassunto

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.

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Recensione:

He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language. (Anthony Burgess)

Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears. (The Guardian)

There's no funnier monster in modern literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert. (The Independent)

L'autore:

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141197013
• ISBN 13: 9780141197012
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 480