Category
page 1Novels set in 1947

Lolita
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

Crooked House
1949 novel by Agatha Christie

A Kiss Before Dying
1953 novel by Ira Levin

The Ginger Man
1955 novel by J. P. Donleavy

Triple
novel by Ken Follett