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The first novel for discussion is Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, published in 1955.

Lolita is the fictional memoir of Humbert Humbert, and traces the controversial and growing obsessions of an older man with an adolescent girl. The events take place through the late 1940s and early 1950s, beginning in the south of France and then moving to America. As the relationship between Dolores and Humbert develops, the reader discovers the dangerous nature and consequences of obsession.

There have been two film adaptations of this novel in 1997 and 1962.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lolita/

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