James Mason
Prof. Humbert Humbert
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Publication place. France. Pages. 336. Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert.
Lolita: Directed by Adrian Lyne. With Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Dominique Swain. An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
After Lolita dies in childbirth, Humbert dies of heart failure, and the manuscript is sent to John Ray, Jr., Ph.D. A short summary of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Lolita.
Lolita: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell. A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
Set in the 1950's USA - 'Lolita' is the prison memoir of a European Professor, Humbert Humbert (Jeremy Irons). Haunted by the death of his first love Annabel when he was just a youth. Humbert met Annabel (Emma Griffiths-Malin) in Cannes, France in 1921 where he worked at a hotel.
Plot. In 1947, Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged European professor of English literature, travels to the United States to take a teaching position in New Hampshire. He rents a room in the home of widow Charlotte Haze, largely because he is sexually attracted to her 14-year-old daughter Dolores, also called "Lo", whom he sees while touring the house.
Overview. Russian-born author Vladimir Nabokov ’s Lolita , published in 1955, is a controversial and provocative novel that tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a literature professor, and his obsession with a twelve-year-old girl named Dolores Haze, whom he nicknames Lolita.
Watchlist. With a screenplay penned by the author himself, Stanley Kubrick brings Vladimir Nabokov's controversial tale of forbidden love to the screen. Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is a European...
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One of the twentieth century’s most controversial novels, Lolita puts readers into the mind of a pedophile and, through Humbert Humbert’s artful account of his relationship with Lolita, challenges assumptions about love and morality.
