Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955. The novel is both famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject. The novel's narrator and main character, Humbert Humbert, becomes sexually obsessed with a young pubescent girl.
Lolita is also the title of two motion pictures based on the novel:
* in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick (where Nabokov was involved in the writing);
* in 1997 by Adrian Lyne.
Much to Nabokov's chagrin, the name has also become a slang term for a sexually attractive or precocious young girl. For more about these non-literary meanings of the term, see the end of this article.
Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
A scholar, Humbert leaves Europe for the United States and moves into a rented room in the home of Charlotte Haze, after seeing her twelve-year-old daughter (Dolores Haze, affectionately shortened to Lo, or Lolita) sunbathing in the garden. Humbert, who has had a lifelong passion for "nymphets" (attractive pubescent girls) - as a pre-adolescent, he experienced the loss of his childhood sweetheart to tuberculosis - is instantly smitten, and will do anything to be near her. The elder Haze, a lonely widow, becomes Humbert's unwitting pawn in his silent quest to be near her young daughter. She and Humbert soon marry. Some time later, while searching Humbert's room, she finds his diary, containing written confessions of indifference to his new wife and impassioned lust for her daughter. In disgust, she plans to flee her home with her daughter, whom she will send to a boarding school and beyond Humbert's reach. She writes three letters to settle some business before her departure, and in her mad hurry to mail the letters, she is hit and killed by a passing car.
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2006-08-18 02:43:23
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes it is a novel in which an old man fell in love with a younger girl . Now Ram Gopal Verma is making a movie on this theme in which Big B will play the role of that old man.
2006-08-19 01:21:43
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answered by Apple 2
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Lolita was a movie. I think it was a novel, but I don't know for sure, because I have not read it. It is about and underage girl having an affair with a much older man ( a pedophile). He attempts to hang on to the relationship/ clingy, and she moves on. She is seductive, and the older man can not resist her, even though he knows that it is wrong to be seduced by her- because of her age.
2006-08-18 02:38:51
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answered by mischa 6
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Lolita is a novel by Vladamir Nabokov about a young woman and an older man.There is a movie version starring Jeremy Irons ...i think.
2006-08-18 02:41:25
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answered by purpleknight2957 2
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The Gemma Doyle Trilogy via Libba Bray. That has forbidden love in it, interior the final 2 books. the tip replaced into unhappy, in spite of the undeniable fact that. besides, the books are: a super and poor attractiveness rebellion Angels The candy some distance ingredient they are set in Victorian circumstances, and it rather is fantasy, in case you like that stuff.
2016-09-29 09:58:40
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answered by ? 4
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lolita is a story about a young girl who has a sexual relationship with a much older man...
yes its a novel
2006-08-18 02:36:34
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answered by tay_jen1 5
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It's a movie about a middle-age man falling in love with a girl in her early teens. Very contraversial.
2006-08-18 07:08:47
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answered by Uros I 4
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ya i hav listened about this novel , but i don't want 2 waste my time on this novel after u will read plz tell me story......
2006-08-18 23:16:40
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answered by XYZ 2
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i read that novel it the same as said by high jack give him thumbs up
2006-08-18 02:45:50
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answered by light feather 4
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its a novel
2006-08-18 22:46:11
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answered by Anonymous
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