Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's 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.
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0 0* 6% * for the first time ever. I am dnf’ing this book. I really wanted to get to the grit of why people can justify this book, but I just couldn’t get past the writing. 1920’s English writing isn’t for me and I knew I wouldn’t enjoy myself reading this book so I’m laying it to rest.
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