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96 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780141978338
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Publication date: 03 October 2013
Description
Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsessi...
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96 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780141978338
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Publication date: 03 October 2013
Description
Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsessi...