Books like Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita by Harold Bloom

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

In post‑war New York, Newland Archer faces a dilemma when his fiancée’s cousin, the rebellious Ellen Olenska, challenges his elite society’s expectations and his own loyalty.

Henry Miller’s debut novel follows a lyrical, autobiographical monologue in which he recounts his early 1930s Parisian life, exploring sex, human behavior and bohemian culture with frankness and poetic intensity.

In Tehran, Azar Nafisi secretly hires seven female students each week to read banned Western classics, revealing the personal and political struggles of women under Iran’s revolutionary regime.

En un tono de pseudo‑biografía, el medio hermano de Sebastian Knight escribe su propia historia para contrarrestar una versión parcial y prejuiciosa. La obra desenmascara la imposibilidad de conocer completamente a un ser humano.

In 1990s America, novelist Nathan Zuckerman narrates a quiet life until the aging classicist Coleman Silk moves in next door.

Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in *Lolita*, Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. ---------- Contains: - [Lolita](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL627084W/Lolita) - Poems

Here is the text of Nabokov's own screen adaptation of his celebrated novel, written in California in 1960 for the director Stanley Kubrick. The film was made by Kubrick, with heavy modifications of Nabokov's script, and released in 1962 - a critical and commercial success. In his forward to this book, Nabokov records his reaction upon seeing the final result - "a mixture of aggravation, regret, and reluctant pleasure...Kubrick saw my novel in one way, I saw it in another." This book provides a fascinating look into the creative process, showing a writer's struggle to turn his own literary masterpiece into a movie script. This is a must for students of the problems of novels versus movies and for fans of Lolita, the novel and the movie. ---------- Also contained in: - [Novels 1955-1962](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20643775W/Novels_1955-1962)

A collection of essays guiding therapists and survivors through treatment and rehabilitation for PTSD, dissociative disorders, and adult victims of child abuse, offering practical insights into overcoming trauma.

The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. But, out of the blue she ended the relationship. Years later he sends a private detective to follow Sarah and find out the truth.