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 narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests after he becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores. The novel was originally written in English and first published in Paris in 1955 by Olympia Press. Later it was translated into Russian by Nabokov himself and published in New York City in 1967 by Phaedra Publishers. ---------- Also contained in: - [Собрание сочинений русского периода в пяти томах: Смех в темноте / Lolita](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL22529308W) - [Novels 1955-1962](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20643775W/Novels_1955-1962) - [Works: Ada / Lolita](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17687842W/Ada_Lolita)

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  New England · United States
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  United States · United States
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  Ithaca, New York · United States

  surrogate for Ramsdale; Nabokov wrote the novel here
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  Pittsfield, Massachusetts · United States

  scholarly-identified real anchor for Ramsdale (opening setting)
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  Hartford, Connecticut · United States

  real state Zimmer places Briceland in (site of Humbert and Lolita's first night together)
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  Evanston, Wyoming · United States

  Zimmer's best-fit real town for Elphinstone (hospital abduction scene)
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