10-03-2018, 04:38 PM
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Grand Sorcerer
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I nominate Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955, 348 pp.).
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Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
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Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.
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Amazon U.S., $11.99
Amazon Canada, CA $13.99
Amazon UK, £4.99
Amazon Australia, AU $12.99
Kobo U.S., $11.99
Kobo Canada, CA $13.99
Kobo UK, £4.99
Kobo Australia, AU $12.99
Annotated edition also available in all regions at slightly higher price.
Available from Overdrive (e-book and audiobook), RB Digital (audiobook), and Axis360 (e-book and audiobook).
Last edited by Catlady; 10-04-2018 at 08:37 AM.
Reason: Invalid nomination
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