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Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert.
Lolita: Directed by Adrian Lyne. With Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Dominique Swain. An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
Lolita Full Book Summary. In the novel’s foreword, the fictional John Ray, Jr., Ph.D., explains the strange story that will follow. According to Ray, he received the manuscript, entitled Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male, from the author’s lawyer.
Lolita: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell. A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
Set in the 1950's USA - 'Lolita' is the prison memoir of a European Professor, Humbert Humbert (Jeremy Irons). Haunted by the death of his first love Annabel when he was just a youth. Humbert met Annabel (Emma Griffiths-Malin) in Cannes, France in 1921 where he worked at a hotel. Humbert was 14 years old and so was Annabel.
Once you know that it concerns sexual relations between 37 year old Humbert Humbert and 12 year old Dolores “Lolita” Hayes, you just about know the plot. There’s a beginning, a middle and an end. A grooming, a consummation, an aftermath. Nabokov makes of his material a three act play.
Humbert marries Charlotte, but only to nurture his obsession with her comely teenage daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). After Charlotte's sudden death, Humbert has Lolita all to himself -- or does...
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Stanley Kubrick directs an all-star cast in Vladimir Nabakov's screenplay of his own once-shocking, now-classic novel, Lolita.
Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The book was written in English. It was published in Paris in 1955. It was translated into Russian by Nabokov. The story is about the sexual relationship that develops in the United States between a middle-aged British professor and a 12-year-old girl after he becomes her stepfather.
Lolita is a 1997 drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Stephen Schiff. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov 's 1955 novel of the same name and stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert and Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze, with supporting roles by Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze and Frank Langella as Clare ...
