Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Humbert Humbert, a European literary scholar, narrates his obsession with and abuse of twelve-year-old Dolores Haze, whom he calls Lolita. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, it was refused by four American publishers, first published in Paris in 1955, and subsequently banned in France, the UK, Argentina, and New Zealand before its eventual American publication in 1958.