{"product_id":"lolita-9780141182537","title":"Lolita","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e''\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLolita\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis comedy, subversive yet divine'' Martin Amis,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLolita\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas lost none of its power to shock and awe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''There''s no funnier monster in literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert'' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vladimir Nabokov","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48483209642199,"sku":"9780141182537","price":5.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0498\/4081\/6279\/files\/2026-04-19T181639.149.png?v=1776611807","url":"https:\/\/theenglishbookshop.com\/products\/lolita-9780141182537","provider":"The English Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}