Book · 1955 · Fiction

Lolita

Name: Lolita
Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 317 pages

★ 9.1 editorial score

Humbert Humbert explains how he became stepfather to a twelve-year-old girl and drove her across America. Nabokov gives the monster the most beautiful prose in English and dares you to enjoy it.

Genre

Postmodernism Black comedy

Medium

Novel

Subject

Pedophilia American culture

Setting

United States

Time

1955Depicts 1950s

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