Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Folio Society - 2015

First published in 1955, this novel is the confession of Humbert Humbert, a European emigre who becomes sexually obsessed with Dolores Haze, a twelve-year-old American girl he calls Lolita. After lodging in her mother's house in a New England town, he takes the child on a long automobile tour of motels and highways, trying to keep her with him while evading curiosity and a rival pursuer. The narration is ornate, self-justifying, and addressed to a court. Postwar American roadside culture is the setting. The book is a study of predation and self-deception in the first person.

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• Publisher: Folio Society
• Edition year: 2015
• Volumes: 1

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