Lolita (1955)

Vladimir Nabokov

Prose (fiction)

English

Nabokov's famously controversial novel in which the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather.

Date of Composition: 1955

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Olympia Press on (1955)

Characters

Humbert Humbert (Age: Unknown, Male)

Dolores (Lolita) Haze (Age: 12, Female)

Clare Quilty (Age: Unknown, Female)

Charlotte Haze (Age: Unknown, Female)

Annabel Leigh (Age: Unknown, Female)

Valeria (Age: Unknown, Female)

Jean Farlow (Age: Unknown, Female)

John Farlow (Age: Unknown, Male)

Dick Schiller (Age: Unknown, Male)

Rita (Age: Unknown, Female)

Mona (Age: Unknown, Female)

Gaston Grodin (Age: Unknown, Male)

Mrs Pratt (Age: Unknown, Female)

Ivor Quilty (Age: Unknown, Male)

Monique (Age: Unknown, Female)

John Ray, Jr (Age: Unknown, Male)

Shirley Holmes (Age: Unknown, Female)

Charlie (Age: Unknown, Male)

Barbara (Age: Unknown, Female)

Vivian Darkbloom (Age: Unknown, Female)

John Windmuller (Age: Unknown, Male)

Frederick Beale, Jr. (Age: Unknown, Male)

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