Vladimir Nabokov

Broschiertes Buch

Lolita

Beschreibung

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? This is a silver-tongued poet or a pervert?

Autor

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9780241953242
• ISBN-10: 0241953243
• Artikelnr.: 33442975

Rezensionen

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