American erotic novels (Book Guide): Lolita, Danse Macabre, The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, Blood Noir, Seduced by Moonlight, Swallowing Darkness

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 42. Chapters: Lolita, Danse Macabre, The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, Blood Noir, Seduced by Moonlight, Swallowing Darkness, Cerulean Sins, Mistral's Kiss, Micah, Narcissus in Chains, Divine Misdemeanors, A Lick of Frost, Incubus Dreams, Tropic of Cancer, A Kiss of Shadows, Adrenaline, A Caress of Twilight, A Feast Unknown, The Convent of Hell, The Mad Man, A Stroke of Midnight, The Harlequin, Snuff, A Spy in the House of Love, Candy, Exit to Eden, Belinda, Tropic of Capricorn, Image of the Beast, Master of the Moon, Tales of the Velvet Comet. Excerpt: Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian. The book is internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle-aged Humbert Humbert, who becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze for whom his private nickname is Lolita. After its publication, Nabokov's Lolita attained a classic status, becoming one of the best-known and most controversial examples of 20th century literature. The name "Lolita" has entered pop culture to describe a sexually precocious girl. The novel was adapted to film by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne. Lolita is included on Time's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It is fourth on the Modern Library's 1998 list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century. Lolita is divided into two parts and 69 chapters. It is narrated by Humbert Humbert, a literary scholar born in 1910 to a Swiss father and an English mother in Paris, who is obsessed with young girls, whom he refers to as "nymphets". Humbert suggests that this obsession results from the d...