Lolita

Lolita

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Jan 1, 1998 · English · Paperback (72 pages)
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Book Details

Format Paperback
Pages 72
Language English
Published Jan 1, 1998
Publisher Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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THE STORY: Widely familiar as a successful novel and motion picture, LOLITA details the controversial obsession of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man of some education and refinement, to possess Dolores Haze, a pre-teen "nymphet." Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes which are commented on by an urbane narrator, the play follows the peregrinations of the increasingly desperate Humbert as he first marries Dolores's mother and then engineers her death—after which he and "Lolita" embark on a zigzag tour of America's motels, always one step ahead of another "dirty old man" with whom his hostage is in love. In the end, "Lolita" escapes Humbert's clutches only to marry a deaf man and die in childbirth—her tormentors, in turn, follow their own destinies toward either madness or murder.

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Romance Mystery Science Fiction Young Adult Children’s Action & Adventure History Horror Humor Business & Economics Fantasy Manga Graphic Novels Poetry Travel Crime Classics Contemporary Nature

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Esto no merece más de dos estrellas, porque es un libro demasiado pesado, con un tema horrible y que sin duda la gente que piensa en un romance ESTÁ ENFERMA, solo me hice este mal para poder hablar con bases de porque no romantizar este tipo de actitudes.

February 12th 2026

Humbert Humbert é um professor de meia-idade e Lolita, a filha da sua senhoria, é uma jovenzinha de doze anos perturbadoramente bela e provocante. Com estes elementos foi contruída a história da obsessão amorosa mais famosa do século XX, um apaixonante romance de amor que abala todas as consciências ao destapar a poderosa e «perversa» atracção que podem exercer as denominadas «ninfitas». Este itinerário desenfreado pelas estradas da loucura e da morte, que mergulha nas paixões humanas até as levar ao extremo, é também um retrato devastador dos Estados Unidos de meados dos anos cinquenta, com os seus horrores suburbanos e a sua triunfante subcultura.

February 1st 2026

The writing was good and the unreliable narrator was good the subject matter was what I signed up for when I read it and I loved the last 6 or so chapters when he sort of realizes what he has done to Lolita.

December 19th 2025
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