Lolita

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. • With a new introduction by Claire Messud “The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.” — The New Yorker One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abo