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Item Details
| Title:
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LOLITA
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| By: |
Vladimir Nabokov, Jeremy Irons |
| Format: |
Downloadable audio file |
| List price:
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£18.98 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1405503890 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781405503891 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
6 March, 2008 |
| Edition: |
Unabridged edition |
| Pages: |
688 |
| Description: |
One of the best known and most controversial examples of twentieth century literature. Read here in its entirety by Jeremy Irons, who starred in the 1997 film adaptation directed by Adrian Lyne. |
| Synopsis: |
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' LOLITA is the story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with twelve-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his 'Lolita' both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy. Initially, Nabokov was unable to find an American publisher willing to take the book on. It was finally published in Paris in 1954 but its notoriety spread quickly. Graham Green, in an interview in THE TIMES later that year, called it 'one of the best books of 1954'. When G.P. Putnam's Sons published in the US in 1958, it was a bestseller; the first book since Gone with the Wind to sell 100,000 copies in the first three weeks of publication. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Hachette Digital |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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