Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)

✍ Scribed by Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 216
Edition: Unknown
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. 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?

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword......Page 5
Part One......Page 7
Part Two......Page 97
Vladimir Nabokov On a book entitled Lolita......Page 209

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