Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Humbert Humbert, a European scholar washed up in a New England town, takes a room in a widow's house because of her twelve-year-old daughter, and marries the mother to stay near the child. His account of the year of motels that follows is written for a jury, in the most beautiful prose he can manage. Style seducing the reader as the crime destroys a child.

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  Martin Amis · 1984 CE · Novel — influenced by this
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  Stanley Kubrick · 1962 CE · Film — adapts this

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