Literary
Classics
1777
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores…
What it is
A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · nobody is entirely good
What happens in it
Unreliable narrator
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Who tells it
- First person
- Pulls you in with
- How it's written
- Style
- Literary
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you enjoy not trusting who's telling it
- how it's written matters to you as much as what happens
- you're drawn to the dark side of people
Maybe not if…
- you'd rather skip the hard scenes
- you read in bed right before sleeping
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