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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
Henry James · 2003
When Isabel Archer, A Beautiful, Spirited American Is Brought To Europe By Her Wealthy Aunt Touchett, It Is Expected That She Will Soon Marry. But Isabel, Resolved To Enjoy The Freedom That Her Fortune Has Opened Up And To Determine Her Own Fate, Does Not Hesitate To Turn Down Two Eligible Suitors. It Is Only When She Finds Herself Irresistibly Drawn To The Cultivated But Worthless Gilbert Osmond That She Discovers That Wealth Is A Two-edged Sword And That There Is A Price To Be Paid For Independence. With Its Subtle Delineation Of American Characters In A European Setting, Portrait Of A Lady Is One Of The Most Accomplished And Popular Of Henry James's Early Novels.
