Lolita

Author: Vladimir Nabokov [USA]
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Publish Date: 2000-09-02
Features: One of the 100 most influential literary masterpieces in the world, an illicit love story of a middle-aged man, once banned in the United States! Yet it was called the only convincing love story of the century! "The Lacquer Tree" was adapted from it, and it was banned from performances nationwide. The novel's story is vivid, the plot is twists and turns, and it pioneered a new perspective on modern sexual ethics,, completed the fable of "the young American tempting the old European." This book is the masterpiece of Russian-American writer Nabokov.
A intellectual who clings to his first love, he remains infatuated with young girls in adulthood, seeing them as innocent little fairies. After meeting the twelve-year-old Lolita, he becomes infatuated with her and goes to the extent of assuming her stepfather's identity to be with her. Behind this seemingly morally questionable plot lies the protagonist's kind heart.
Ultimately, he was condemned as a murderer for this relationship.