Classics · Literary
Lolita
Bestseller: about 50 million copies (estimate)Humbert Humbert, an educated European, recounts from prison his obsession with a twelve-year-old girl and the cross-country journey that followed. His elegant, self-justifying narration is the book's trap.
- First published
- 1955
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a landmark of unreliable narration and ornate prose and can face a deeply disturbing narrator.
Skip this if depictions of child sexual abuse are something you cannot read, even when the narrator is condemned.
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