{"id":348,"date":"2012-09-02T00:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=348"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:54:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:54:41","slug":"year-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1955: <strong>Lolita<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Vladimir Nabokov<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1235976~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-350  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita2-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita2-624x474.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most controversial novels ever published, <em>Lolita<\/em> is the story of a man who has a sexual relationship with his twelve-year-old step-daughter and it examines both his and her struggles with the implications. The narrator\u2019s voice is so tortured and yet sophisticated that readers may \u201cfind ourselves the more shocked when we realize that, in the course of reading the novel, we have come virtually to condone the violation it presents\u201d.\u00a0 Although it was banned in both the UK and France when it was first published, <em>Lolita<\/em> is consistently on many \u201cBest Books\u201d lists.\u00a0 The name Lolita has been adopted into popular language as a term to describe a seductive young girl or situation in which an older man is infatuated with a young girl or vice versa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-349 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita1.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-351\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita3-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita3-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/Lolita3.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1955: Lolita Author\/Editor: Vladimir Nabokov Find it in Collins Library! One of the most controversial novels ever published, Lolita is the story of a man who has a sexual relationship with his twelve-year-old step-daughter and it examines both his and her struggles with the implications. The narrator\u2019s voice is so tortured and yet sophisticated that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1948-1957"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}