‘lolita’ — Now With Pictures

Ron Charles, Washington Post: Books
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 7:47am

‘Lolita’ — now with pictures

Even in these sophisticated latter days, “Lolita” still carries a scent of pedophilic scandal. Are we ready for an illustrated version of Nabokov’s classic? The Folio Society, a small London publisher of fine volumes, has just released a boxed edition with the name spelled out on the cover as Humbert Humbert pronounces it in his opening paragraph: “Lo.

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