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Lolita at 40
The story of how Lolita, the controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov, came to be published
The story of how Lolita, the controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov, came to be published 40 years ago, and of its story of the ageging Humbert Humbert's obsession with the seductive 12-year-old "nymphette", Lolita. Plus, a discussion about depictions of child sexuality, and how the book was turned into a film by Stanley Kubrick.
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