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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage | Format: Paperback | Page Count: 336
Humbert Humbert is a scholar of French literature, and the novel's horror runs through his allusions - Poe's child bride, Merimee's Carmen, Petrarch and his Laura. Every reference is a piece of advocacy, an attempt to file atrocity under romance. Nabokov builds the most morally serious case in fiction for distrusting beautiful citation: Humbert's bookshelf is not character decoration, it is his entire legal defence.
