Book description
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. 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.
