The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humberts obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.

The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.The New Yorker

One ofThe Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Awe and exhilarationalong with heartbreak and mordant witabound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert’s obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.

Most of all, it is a meditation on lovelove as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.