Humbert sees in Dolores, whom he calls Lolita, the perfect nymphet and the embodiment of his first love Annabel, and quickly decides to move in. The impassioned Humbert constantly searches for discreet …

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.

Sep 15, 2025 · Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel, 'Lolita,' was published 70 years ago on Sept. 15, 1955.

Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and …

Apr 22, 2011 · Lolita, novel by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1955 in France. Upon its American publication in 1958, Lolita created a cultural and literary sensation. The novel is presented as the …

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. It has since been adapted into two major films: first by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and later by Adrian Lyne in 1997.

'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov is the subversive story of a middle-aged man's lustful obsession with his 12-year-old step-daughter.

May 12, 2025 · Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita stands as one of literature’s most disquieting achievements, a novel whose extraordinary prose and narrative complexity continue to captivate readers nearly seven …

In this black comedy, an English professor marries his landlady to get closer to his forbidden obsession: her teenage daughter. Watch trailers & learn more.

Lolita premiered on June 13, 1962, in New York City (the copyright date onscreen is 1961). It performed fairly well with little advertising, relying mostly on word-of-mouth; many critics seemed uninterested …