Lolita

In the decades since its first publication,  Lolita has emerged as a classic of contemporary literature. Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love. This seduction is one of the many dimensions in Nabokov’s dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with rich, elaborate verbal textures.