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This Week in Literary History: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita premieres in New York.

Literary Hub 08 June 2026 22h ago
This Week in Literary History: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita premieres in New York.
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was first published in 1955, after many rejections from American publishers, by the Paris-based Olympia Press, who really specialized in books of a different sort entirely (other titles
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