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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection
'You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style'. Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle-aged college professor. Haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and illegally) in lust with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Dolores ...Show more
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, "Pale Fire", is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and ev ...Show more
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