/lit/ - Literature

i'm (re)reading it as we speak. the writing is great, as to be expected, but it's a sort of dismal little story isn't it. there isn't really anyone to root for, the MC is a pervert and not a very likeable one. I get a negative feeling reading the book.

what is the best book cover for lolita everyone

Lolita is divided into two parts and 69 chapters. It is narrated by Humbert Humbert, a literary scholar born in 1910 to a Swiss father and an English mother in Paris, who is obsessed with young girls, whom he refers to as "nymphets". Humbert suggests that this obsession results from the death of a childhood sweetheart, Annabel Leigh (a deliberate play by Nabokov on the poem "Annabel Lee", by Humbert's favorite poet Edgar Allan Poe, which also involves a dead girl and her left behind lover). After an unsuccessful marriage to a Polish doctor's adult daughter, Valeria, Humbert moves to Ramsdale, a small New England town, in 1947 to write. He rents a room in the house of Charlotte Haze, a widow. While Charlotte tours him around the house, he meets her 12-year-old daughter, Dolores (also known as Dolly, Lolita, Lola, Lo and L), with whom—partially due to her uncanny resemblance to Annabel—he immediately becomes infatuated. Humbert stays at the house only to remain near her. While he is obsessed with Lolita, he disdains her crassness and preoccupation with contemporary American popular culture, such as teen movies and comic books...
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When I saw this piece on cover designs for Lolita, I thought at once of you, /lit/ ...

http://viz.cwrl.utexas.edu/content/lolitas-legs-and-cover-images

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i felt sad reading it on the bus.