Lolita
What if the most seductive love story was really a confession of crimes? In Lolita, a scholar’s intellectual charm veils a perilous obsession with Dolores Haze, a girl ensnared in a gilded prison of manipulation and forbidden desire. As their cross-country odyssey spirals into darkness, her laughter masks silent rebellion—but when obsession eclipses morality, can love ever justify ruin? Prepare to confront a narrative so haunting, you’ll wonder if turning the page is an act of complicity.
- Originally Published: 1955
- Publisher: Penguin, 2011
- Genre: Novel
- Pages: 368
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0241953242
- Access: Members
Description
One of the best-known novels of the 20th century – the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita
‘You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.’
Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle-aged college professor. Haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and illegally) in lust with his landlady’s twelve-year-old daughter Dolores Haze. Obsessed, he’ll do anything, will commit any crime, to possess his Lolita.
But once Lolita belongs to Humbert, once he has got what he wants, what next? And what of Lolita? How long is she willing to be possessed?
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