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  Lolita (Weidenfeld and Nicholson) (Hardback) By (author) Vladimir Nabokov

  

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  Short Description for LolitaThe now classic story of Humbert Humbert's obsession with the twelve-year-old Lolita.
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  • Publisher: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
  • Published: 02 July 2009
  • Format: Hardback 308 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780297858805 ISBN 10: 0297858807
  • Sales rank: 131,765

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• A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists. The endpapers for this title have been designed by Louisa Scarlet Gray. Following a failed marriage to a 'large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba', Humbert Humbert decides to move to America to work as a tutor. Much to his dismay, his plans change and he moves into a boarding house in Ramsdale, New Hampshire. But his disappointment quickly fades after he realises the duaghter of his landlady is the 'light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul Lo-li-ta.' The relationship blossoms between the man 'with a cesspool of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile' and the sassy, vivacious young girl in Nabokov's highly controversial take on the classic American road trip novel.