Lolita : A Deeper Look at Pedophile Lolita, basically was written as a memoir of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, in which he told about his life and his love story with Lolita. Humbert raised in noble family was an intellectual man, and a college teacher, who fell deeply and blindly in love with Lolita, a 12 years old girl having a little of wildness, seduction, and flirtation. Under Nabokov’s pen, Humbert’s story went on intriguingly with extreme feelings of love such as lust, allurement, addiction, jealousy, constraint, craziness,, and was alternated with delicately erotic scenes between the two main characters. The love story about a middle-aged man and a little girl could never be ordinary to any reader, which made it get rejections from publishers for its very first publication, and receive intense challenges from reviewers as well as bans from government or justice authorities afterward. By looking back at the publication history of Lolita, one can see that this masterpiece of Nabokov was born to be one of the most controversial novels. Still, his novel left in readers’ mind a thorough perception about pedophile and a deep impression in his linguistic artistry. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov is a Russian novelist, literature professor and a great contributor in Lepidoptera study and Chess composition. Being proficient in Russian, English and French from early age, Nabokov had a huge advantage to write his works in 3 languages and published them in different countries. In 1941, he moved to America and began his job as a Russian and English literature professor in Cornell University; also from this time, he focused mainly on writing English novels. He started working on Lolita in summer 1949, while travelling on butterfly-collection trips in Western United States. The novel took him five years to finish, and with it, he persistently went through ups and downs to finally reach the glory from his brainchild. Because of its sexually sensitive content, at first, Nabokov determined to have the novel published anonymously in America in order to protect his career as a professor at Cornell University. Still, the book’s publication was so risky that got rejected by five publishers: Viking, Simon & Schuster, New Directions, Farrar, Straus, and Doubleday. In the 100 Banned Books : Censorship Histories of World Literature, Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald and Dawn B. Sova state that Pascal Covici of Viking Press and Wallace Brockway of Simon and Schuster anticipated about how the novel would strike readers as “pornographic.” James Laughlin of New Directions refused the book because “we are worried about possible repercussions both for the publisher and the author” and suggested publication in France. Before giving up, Nabokov sent the manuscript to Roger Straus of Farrar, Straus & Young and to Jason Epstein of Doubleday, who also rejected the manuscript (304). The refuse led to Nabokov’s decision on collaboration with Olympia Press to release Lolita in France and England in 1955. This time, he realized that the book needed to be published under his own name since hiding would just advance the argument about the book being pornography worthy of censorship. Lolita immediately became a provocation to the public in France, where it soon got banned by the Minister of the Interior in 1956 until early 1958. However, in May 1958, the French minister appealed the initial judgment to the Conseil d'Etat, the highest court, and the book was again banned in France by the end of that year. Though they could not make any appeal, Olympia Press found their own advantages for a suit when criticizing the publication of the novel by the other reputable publisher, Gallimard, in April. Olympia Press sued the French government on the basis that the legal principle of equality between French citizens had been violated by the banning of the Olympia Press edition of Lolita and not the Gallimard edition (Karolides et al. 304). In September 1959, the English version was brought back to the readers. Meanwhile, in England 1955, there was a remarkable event drawing attention and attractions to Lolita, which happened right at the time British Customs banned the book: Graham Greene, in the Sunday Times, nominated Lolita as one of his three favorite books in 1955, which later faced a censure from John Gordon, an editor of Sunday Express: “Without doubt it is the filthiest book I have ever read. Sheer unrestrained pornography” (“Russia in a click”). Several British publishers were even ready to fight for themselves at the court since the reviewers were already waging a war against the novel. Nigel Nicholson, a member of Parliament as well as a publisher, was incited by the Conservatives not to publish the book, claiming that it would be detrimental to the party image. He lost his next hid for reelection, partly because of Lolita (Karolides et al. 305). The ban was eventually removed from the book in 1959. In contra