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Lolita (1962), directed by Stanley Kubrick. © 1962 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Leading up to its publication, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita gave even its author pause as to whether it should be available to the public. It took some convincing from his wife to publish the novel, and it was released by a noted pornographic press in France in 1955. Lolita’s controversial status fueled its success, leading it to the top of best-seller lists across the globe. However, its subject matter, which was presented to its readers as the memoirs of a deceased European intellectual who fanatically yearned after a 12 year old girl, proved too obscene for several authorities and was banned in its first decade of publication in France, England, Argentina, New Zealand, and South Africa as well as in some American communities. One review of the novel deemed it “highbrow pornography” adorned with “English vocabulary [that] would astound the editors of the Oxford Dictionary.” Although harshly

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