Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's fixation is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.
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Vladimir Nabokov
The Original of Laura
Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora.
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The Enchanter
A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter.
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Ada or Ardor
A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship.
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