Description
| Product ID: | 9781474605618 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Real Lolita |
| Subtitle: | A Lost Girl, An Unthinkable Crime and A Scandalous Masterpiece |
| Authors: | Author: Sarah Weinman |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | True crime, True crime, Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The gripping, previously untold true story of the child abduction that inspired Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA'Nuanced and compassionate true-crime reportage and revelatory cultural and literary history' Megan Abbott Vladimir Nabokov''s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. |
| Imprint Name: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Publisher Name: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-02-04 |
