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The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the 20th century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
One of the world’s most celebrated novels, soon to be a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska.
In the story of a provincial doctor and his wife’s tawdry affairs, Gustave Flaubert found the stuff of great literature. A perfect novel about imperfect people, Madame Bovary is the rare classic that exceeds expectations and feels as fresh now as it did the day it was written.
