Lolita

Name: Lolita
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 0141197013

by Vladimir Nabokov

✓ ReadPublic Domain

Originally published as «Lolito», Olympia Press

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of in...

First published 1777336 pages

Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction

Category: Literature
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 5
Editions known: 228

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 813.54 s891.73810891.7334
Library of Congress (LCC): PS3527.A15 L617 1989AN0000PS3527.A15 L6 1959bPZ0003.N121 Lo Delta

Subjects

813/.54AbhängigkeitAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Child molestersContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)DramaEdad maduraEroticaFeature filmsFetishism (Sexual behavior)FicciónFiction in english

This edition

ISBN 0141197013English

DATE DUE

First published1777

Film adaptation1962

Adaptation adaptation1994

Adaptation adaptation1995

Film adaptation1997

Adaptation adaptation1999

Film adaptation2002

Adaptation adaptation2013

StatusREAD