Lolita

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

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Published Mar 13, 1989

317 pages

Average rating: 7.1

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Readers say *Lolita* is a beautifully written yet deeply disturbing novel that challenges readers with its controversial subject matter and an intrica...

eddiskel

Feb 01, 2025

4/10 stars

October is banned books month so we each chose a banned book and read it then gave a report to the group.

LitterBug

Nov 10, 2025

8/10 stars

A really interesting book and I can see why it has become a classic. I am baffled by the way people have come to misunderstand this book, tbh.

soj8b123

Oct 06, 2025

This is an astoundingly well written story from a man who was not a native English speaker! ... which should not be my take away considering its topic. But it is.

jess.withbooks

Jun 05, 2025

10/10 stars

This was somehow one of the most uncomfortable, upsetting books I’ve ever read while also containing some of the most interesting, beautiful, fantastic prose I think I’ve ever seen; as a result, I’m left wanting to remember quotes from it as much as I am trying to push the novel’s content from my head.

MrsQuackers411

Apr 29, 2025

7/10 stars

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