The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman

The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World

Sarah Weinman

317 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

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Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner.Weaving...

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