The Annotated Lolita

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past....

Rupi Kaur

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O'farrell, Maggie

A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, HAMNET is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play.On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medici...

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family - his adoptive mother, Thena, a woman of few words and many secrets, and his beloved, angry S...

This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the pow...

Louisa May Alcott

'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of travelling...

Nabokov, Vladimir

Una extraña historia situada en el ambiente típico de las primerasnovelas de Nabokov, el universo cerrado de la emigración rusa en laAlemania prehitleriana. En medio de esta burguesía ilustrada yexpatriada, Smurov, el protagonista de la historia y suicidafrustrado, es unas veces espía bolchevique y otras héroe de la guerracivil; enamorado sin fortuna un día y homosexual al día ...

Nabokov, Vladimir

Nabokov nos da las pautas para una lectura sagaz, heterodoxa y apasionante de grandes libros europeos Vladimir Nabokov, lejos de generalidades y teorizaciones, enseña a sus alumnos a "acariciar los detalles" y apasionarse con la lectura de Austen, Dickens, Stevenson, Proust, Flaubert, Joyce y Kakfa. Estas lecciones apasionadas y apasionantes, reconstruidas más tarde por Fre...

Nabokov, Vladimir

Escrito entre 1924 y 1940, mientras huía de Rusia y vagaba por una Europa ya bajo la sombra de la barbarie nazi, este volumen de cuentos muestra la serena e inspirada madurez narrativa de un escritor brillante, capaz de deslumbrar por igual en sus percepciones, en un final impredecible o en inolvidables miniaturas. ...

Nabokov, Vladimir

Publicada por Nabokov al cumplir setenta años, Ada o el ardor supone la felicísima cúspide de su larga y brillante carrera literaria. Al mismo tiempo que crónica familiar e historia de amor (incestuoso), Ada es un tratado filosófico sobre la naturaleza del tiempo, una paródica historia del género novelesco, una novela erótica, un canto al placer y una reivindicación del Paraíso...

Nabokov, Vladimir

La historia de la obsesión de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarentón, por la doceañera Lolita es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atracción «perversa» por las nínfulas y el incesto. Un itinerario a través de la locura y la muerte, que desemboca en una estilizadísima violencia, narrado, a la vez con autoironía y lirismo desen...

Nabokov, Vladimir