Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'.
Lolita on hurja ja vaikuttava kertomus hyväksikäytöstä, rakkaudesta, omistushalusta ja pakkomielteen pelottavasta voimasta. Vladimir Nabokovin mestariteos julkaistiin Pariisissa vuonna 1955 ja julistettiin heti kielletyksi kirjaksi.
Vnimaniju chitatelja predlagaetsja pervyj i naibolee avtobiografichnyj roman vsemirno izvestnogo russko-amerikanskogo pisatelja, odnogo iz krupnejshikh prozaikov XX veka, avtora znamenitoj "Lolity" Vladimira Nabokova.
Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape.
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.
When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century.
Nabokov's first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth.
Bei einem E-Bike-Ausflug mit Doktor Langhammer macht Kluftinger eine grausige Entdeckung: Am Himmelhorn, einem der gefährlichsten Berge der Allgäuer Alpen, findet er die Leichen von drei abgestürzten Bergsteigern,....
Deutschlands erfolgreichstes Autorenduo ist zurück - mit dem großen Jubiläums-Bestseller, in dem endlich das Geheimnis um Kluftingers Vornamen gelüftet wird!
Karoline Herfurth, Marc Hosemann und David Nathan lassen in ihrer Lesung von "Moabit" das vibrierende und schillernde Berlin der 20er Jahre authentisch und stimmstark auferstehen.
Comme disait parfois son précepteur Pangloss, si Candide n'avait pas été chassé d'un beau château a grands coups de pied au derriere pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunégonde,
Formosante est princesse de Babylone. Son pere veut trouver un époux digne d'elle. Toute la noblesse de l'époque défile au palais : le pharaon d'Egypte et son bouf Apis, le roi des Indes, le grand khan des Scythes...
W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the nineteeth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions and revolutions of that period.
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.
This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute,...