LOVE FOR LIVRES

Vladimir Vladimirovitch Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: ????????? ????????????? ????????), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.

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Lolita

Vladimir Vladimirovitch Nabokov - Publisher : Olympia Press

The protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor called Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather. Lolita is his private nickname for Dolores. They finally will get closer and closer. The book created a controversy but it is yet, nearly half century after the first publication,...
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During my holidays	Summer	For all	fairly easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
A few days

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6/10

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Vladimir Vladimirovitch Nabokov - Publisher : Vintage Books

Ada tells the life story of a man named Van Veen, and his lifelong love affair with his sister Ada. They meet when she is eleven (soon to be twelve) and he is fourteen, believing that they are cousins (more precisely: that their fathers are cousins and that their mothers are sisters), and begin a sexual affair. They later discover that Van's father is also Ada's and her mother is also his. The...
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To not die of boredom	Spring	To my friends	Not easy to read	Great classic	Between 10 and 20$
At least one month

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