Classic & Older Gothic

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged European intellectual, chronicles his obsessive, predatory desire for twelve-year-old Dolores Haze in prose of devastating beauty and moral complexity. Nabokov's controversial masterpiece is a darkly satirical examination of delusion, manipulation, and the unreliable narrator's capacity for self-justification.

More Classic & Older Gothic

• Redwall — Brian Jacques
• Chapterhouse: Dune — Frank Herbert
• The Naked Sun — Isaac Asimov
• The Vile Village — Lemony Snicket
• The Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett
• Christine — Stephen King
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom — Miguel Ruiz
• Winnie-the-Pooh — A.A. Milne

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