Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Lolita (1962 film)

Lolita is a 1962 psychological comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov, who is...

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Lolita (1997 film)

Lolita is a 1997 drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Stephen Schiff. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel...

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Lolita (term)

"Lolita" is an English-language term defining a young girl as "precociously seductive." It originates from Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, which...

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Vladimir Nabokov bibliography

This is a list of works by writer Vladimir Nabokov. (1926) Mashen'ka (Машенька); English translation: Mary (1970) (1928) Korol', dama, valet (Король, дама...

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Lolita

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable...

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Florence Sally Horner

abducted by serial child molester Frank La Salle in 1948. It is believed that Vladimir Nabokov drew on the details of her case in writing his novel Lolita. In...

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Dmitri Nabokov

author Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera; they emigrated to the United States from France in 1940. He later was naturalized. In his later years, Nabokov translated...

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Véra Nabokov

April 1991) was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works. Born Vera Yevseyevna...

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Lolita (disambiguation)

Look up Lolita or lolita in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lolita is a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita may also refer to: Lolita (given name)...

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Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov

Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Дми́триевич Набо́ков; 21 July [O.S. 8 July] 1870 – 28 March 1922) was a Russian criminologist, journalist...

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The Big Read (category Literary awards by magazines and newspapers)

Roald Dahl Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline...

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Sue Lyon

an older adolescent rather than the 12-year-old child Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. Although Kubrick's film altered the story so as not to...

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Picnic, Lightning

Humbert's description of his mother's death in the second chapter of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic,...

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Nabokov House

mansion became the property of the liberal statesman and jurist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, and as such the house hosted many important political meetings...

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The Enchanter (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)

novella written by Vladimir Nabokov in Paris in 1939. As Волшебник (Volshebnik) it was his last work of fiction written in Russian. Nabokov never published...

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Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis...

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Japanese fashion as social resistance (section Lolita)

namesake the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The lolita subculture emphasizes modesty and youthfulness and is not considered overtly sexual by its followers...

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Lolita (given name)

as "Lolita" a bed aimed at young girls. All pages with titles beginning with Lolita Lolita (disambiguation) Lolita, a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov Loleatta...

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Valery Asratyan (category People convicted of murder by the Soviet Union)

psychology and pedagogy". Around this time Asratyan began reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, a book about a man who enters a sexual relationship with an underage...

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