Please forward this error screen to sharedip-1601531634. Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. 100 Books of the Century, Bokklubben World 100 russian dating site and The Big Read.

Lolita quickly attained a classic status. The novel was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne. The story starts with a fictional foreword by John Ray Jr. PhD, an editor of psychology books. In it, Ray writes that he’s presenting the details of a memoir entitled The Confession of a White Widowed Male written by a literary scholar of mixed European ethnicity who died recently in an American jail of heart disease while awaiting his murder trial. After losing his mother at a young age, Humbert has a rich childhood living in his wealthy father’s hotel. At the age of 13 Humbert has a precocious relationship with a girl his age, Annabel Leigh, but her family moves away before they get the chance to have full sex.

Annabel dies shortly thereafter of typhus. Humbert visited many prostitutes as a young adult but is unsatisfied unless they resemble a nymphet. He eventually marries a Polish woman named Valeria to allay suspicion of his hebephilia. Humbert plans on migrating to America and leaving her after several years of marriage, only for the marriage to dissolve anyway after she admits to having an affair. Later, Humbert suffers a mental breakdown and recovers in a psychiatric hospital. Relieved of his perfume duties while still entitled to the allowance, Humbert plans to move to South America to take advantage of looser laws concerning the age of consent.