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Lolita
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Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores... »
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The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
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In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher mor... »
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics)
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"Clasping my arms like a climbing plant
the leaves garnered your voice, that was slow and at peace.
Bonfire of awe in which my thirst was burning.
Sweet blue hyacinth twisted over my soul."
(from "I Remember You As You Were")
After watching "The Postman" I became interested in purchasing my first book of Pablo Neru... »
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Pnin
Nabokov achieves perfect balance as he tells the story of Timofey Pnin, a bumbling Russian A migrA and permanent associate professor. Here, Professor Pni... »
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
A wonderfully crafted masterpiece, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the must-reads of all time. This beautiful piece of literature appeals to many differ... »
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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
This would be my first introduction to Pablo Neruda, and I must say I'm a bit disappointed. Not that Neruda isn't a great poet, the Nobel Prize and critic... »
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A House for Mr. Biswas
Another selected novel for my high school literature class. What a great story! Mr Biswas and his family were such characters! Full of richness, weirdne... »
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Pale Fire
Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet ... »
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Lolita
In the field of erotic literature, this novel has probably touched the awareness of the public more than any other, to such an extent that the once innocu... »
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