Lolita 50th Anniversary Edition Author:Vladimir Nabokov Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of po... more »stwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.« less