Lolita
Title:
Lolita
Author:
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
ISBN:
9780141182537
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 1995.
Physical Description:
331 p. ; 20 cm.
Series:
Modern classics
Modern classics.
Series Title:
Modern classics
Modern classics.
Abstract:
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?
Subject:
| Child molesters -- Fiction. |
| Russian fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English. |
| Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction. |
| Pedophilia -- Fiction. |
| Middle-aged men -- Fiction. |
| Erotic stories. |
| Love stories. |
Summary:
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?