Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Author: Vladimir NabokovForeword: John Ray
Edition: Paperback
Published: 1998-04-30
ISBN: 0140264078
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Book Review: Humerous but sensitive, a book to fall in love with.
Summary: 5 Stars
Humbert Humbert is an aging academic with a penchant for purple prose and little girls. Lolita is twelve, with dirty fingernails and a dirtier mind, and Humbert Humbert is obsessed. As the book progresses, the obsession flowers into love. Not the justifiable and therefore weaker love of romantic fiction - his love is unrewarded by any merit or response from Lolita, - Humbert Humbert's love draws its sustenance from his carnal obsession. Nabokov's book is sensitive and funny, a black humour that laughs at love, but does not mock it. Don't be put off by the flowery adjectives and French quotations. This book tells you how to love.
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