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| | CNN - Nabokov - Lolita's Impact |
 | | Although Lolita's first printing of 5,000 copies sold out, there were no notable reviews, and the book would likely have gone unnoticed for some time had not respected author and critic Graham Greene, in an interview published in the London Times, called it one of the best books of the year. |
 | | A cynic might add that "Lolita" is a complex and often tricky book, and that only the most fanatical Philistine, intent on ferreting out every incidence of filth, was likely to read it to the end. |
 | | But even the laziest prude can sit through a film, and it is the two film versions of "Lolita", the first by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 and the second by Adrian Lyne in 1997, that have provoked the most controversy. |
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