by Vladimir Nabokov
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Lolita places you inside the refined, self-justifying mind of a pedophile, Humbert Humbert, as he recounts his obsession with a twelve-year-old girl. Nabokov’s prose is intoxicating, full of wordplay and dark wit, making you complicit in Humbert’s delusions. it reads as at once dazzling and deeply uncomfortable. The book’s main limitation is its disturbing subject, which will repel many readers outright. Its value lies in its exploration of obsession, manipulation, and the power of language to seduce.
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Awe and exhilarationalong with heartbreak and mordant witabound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postw...
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Recommended by 14 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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