LOLITA

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to lepidoptery and had a big interest in chess problems.Nabokovs Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel and is at any rate his most widely known one exhibiting the love of intricate wordplay and descriptive detail that characterized all his works.Lolita was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list and his memoir Speak Memory (1951) was listed eighth on the publishers list of the 20th centurys greatest nonfiction. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times. Humbert Humbert - scholar aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze his landladys gum-snapping silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure all in the name of Love. Hilarious flamboyant heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play Lolita is an immaculate unforgettable masterpiece of obsession delusion and lust.