{"product_id":"9780141182537","title":"Lolita","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There's no funnier monster in literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nabokov, Vladimir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56755929809282,"sku":"9780141182537","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0936\/6575\/5522\/files\/9780141182537.jpg?v=1783518444","url":"https:\/\/archwaybookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780141182537","provider":"Archway Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}