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Fiction · Postmodernism

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov
1955 · 317 pages

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.

★ 9.1