![]() ![]() It has also been adapted several times for the stage and has been the subject of two operas, two ballets, and an acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, Broadway musical. The novel has been twice adapted into film: first by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and later by Adrian Lyne in 1997. ![]() (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being first published in Paris, France in 1955 by Olympia Press. ![]() The novel was originally written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. "Lolita", the Spanish nickname for Dolores, is what he calls her privately. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is a Parisian obsessed with a 12-year-old New England girl, Dolores Haze, whom he kidnaps and sexually abuses after becoming her stepfather. Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. ![]()
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