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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 0141182539 ISBN13: 9780141182537
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Feb 2000
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy. More

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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 024195164X ISBN13: 9780241951644
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: Reissue
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Apr 2011
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he... More

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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 0141185260 ISBN13: 9780141185262
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Aug 2000
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty... More

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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 0241953243 ISBN13: 9780241953242
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Aug 2011
Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle-aged college professor. Haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and illegally) in lust with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Dolores Haze. More

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The Gift
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 014119698X ISBN13: 9780141196985
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
An autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. It tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. "The Gift" is the phantasmal... More

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ISBN: 9780141196978 - Invitation to a Beheading

Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 0141196971 ISBN13: 9780141196978
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Written in Berlin in 1934, "Invitation to a Beheading" contains all the surprise... More

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Despair
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 0141196963 ISBN13: 9780141196961
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening split in Hermann's... More

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ISBN: 9780141196954 - Laughter in the Dark

Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 0141196955 ISBN13: 9780141196954
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
In Berlin there lived a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable and happy but one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress he loved. He was not loved in return, however, and his life ended in disaster. In Berlin there... More

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Bend Sinister
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 0141197005 ISBN13: 9780141197005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine Average Man party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug... More

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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN10: 0141197013 ISBN13: 9780141197012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita... More

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