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  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141037431
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 372
  • RRP: $15.99

Lolita: Popular Penguins



Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years after its first publication, Lolita remains a powerful tale of perversion and love gone wrong.

  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141037431
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 372
  • RRP: $15.99

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About the author

Vladimir Nabokov

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.

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