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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1955
Pages
Pages 335

A cultured European paedophile narrates, in gorgeous self-justifying prose, how he married a widow to reach her twelve-year-old daughter, and what he destroyed; the beauty of the telling is the trap.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

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