American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1530 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vladimir Nabokov and *Lolita*
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The idea
Nabokov was born into an affluent family in czarist Russia, came to the United States in nineteen forty and taught at Cornell. The witness describes the American edition of nineteen fifty-eight as concerning an educated middle-aged European who becomes infatuated with a twelve-year-old girl.
In practice
A novel about an adult preying on a child.
Where people slip
The narrator is a predator and a liar.
Your place on the trail
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