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331 pages
First published: 1955
Summary: Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle aged college professor. Haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and eventually illegally) in lust with his landlady's twelve year old daughter, Dolorez Haze. Obsessed, he'll do anything, will commit any crime to possess his Lolita. But once Lolita belongs to Humbert, once he has got what he wants, what next? and what of Lolita? how long is she willing to be possessed?
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