{"product_id":"lolita-penguin-modern-classics-9780141182537","title":"Lolita: Penguin Modern Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eLolita \u003c\/i\u003eis comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? 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. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, \u003ci\u003eLolita \u003c\/i\u003ehas lost none of its power to shock and awe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'There's no funnier monster in literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45084933292183,"sku":"9780141182537","price":390.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780141182537.webp?v=1769201689","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lolita-penguin-modern-classics-9780141182537","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}