Lolita

In class on Wednesday we took a trip to the library learn how to do research through Georgia State’s library website. I put those newly learned tips to the test when I looked up my word which was Lolita. Lolita is a novel that was written back in 1958. It was written by Vladimir Nabokov, who lived in the years between 1899 and 1977, Vladimir Nabokov main character is a precious schoolgirl seduced by a middle-aged man (Oxford English Dictionary). Lolita was only 12 years of age and she was held captive and continually abused (Meyer, Frank S.). The middle aged man name was Humbert. He was a sick individual that found attraction in Lolita. The confused man had a terrible plan to achieve his goal, which was to have Lolita all to himself. His planned was to marry Lolita’s mother, in which he did, the kill her, and drug Lolita and have is way with her. His murder plans did not work, but his wife died anyway in a car accident leaving him with Lolita. He threatens her and bribes her to fulfill his sexually needs. He takes from sleazy motel to sleazy motel so he can perform his sexual fantasies upon her. Soon Lolita ended up pregnant but died shortly after giving birth to a still born child (McGinn, Colin).
Vladimir had to wait for his success because the book rejected by various publishers here in the United States due to the fact of that the book hit so many “wrongs” morally. Even then the Olympia Press finally gave Vladimir his chance (Williams, Gerald). When the novel was finally published it was initially banned in Russia. The book hit the literary mainstream in 1972 even though it was seen as scandalous the erotic bestseller stock grew, and in 1988 it was no longer banned in Russia (Shekhovtsova, O.).
The novel is very popular today.