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Lolita is a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov that tells the story of a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a 12-year-old girl and kidnaps her. The novel explores themes of love, obsession, and morality, and has been adapted into film and stage.
- Vladimir Nabokov
- 1955
A classic novel about a middle-aged man's obsessive and illegal love for a young girl, Lolita. Readers praise the book's style, humor, and complexity, but also question its morality and ethics.
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Sep 12, 2024 · Lolita is a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a controversial masterpiece of modern literature. It tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Dolores Haze, whom he calls Lolita.
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“Lolita” is a classic but controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The story follows through the eyes of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged literature professor, who obsesses over Dolores Haze, and nicknames her “Lolita”.
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Russian-born author Vladimir Nabokov ’s Lolita, published in 1955, is a controversial and provocative novel that tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a literature professor, and his obsession with a twelve-year-old girl named Dolores Haze, whom he nicknames Lolita.
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Aug 24, 2010 · Lolita is a fiction book by the Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1955. It tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with the young Dolores Haze, whom he calls Lolita.
