Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovHumbert 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, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious,

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Yet even as he and his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught

she ends up saving it from certain disaster

is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world

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and the passionate student Marius

Written in a lucid style and dealing systematically with the subject matter

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Robert Walser

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which threaten his deep and enduring frienship with Jim