Title: Lolita

    书名：《洛丽塔》

    Author: Vladimir Nabokov

    作者：弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

    Publisher: Penguin

    出版社：企鹅出版社

    The s tor y of a younggirl, Dolores (Lolita) Haze,and her seducer, HumbertHumbert, is among the finestworks of literature in the Englishlanguage from the second half of thetwentieth century, all the more remarkablefor the fact that it is written in the author's secondlanguage. As the result of an unsatisf ied prepubescentlove affair with a childhood sweetheart,Humbert Humbert becomes attracted romanticallyto young girls (between the ages of nine andfourteen), or "nymphets" as he chooses to namethem. After an early failed marriage, he finds theLolita of the story, marrying her mother to becomecloser to the object of his terrible desire. WhenHumbert becomes the girl's sole guardian and afterthe young girl's seduction, Lolita's stepfather'takesthe girl on a fateful journey across the whole of America. One could describe the book in many ways:tragic love story, sordid tale humanized, work ofcomic genius. But most importantly it is the pleasurecreated in reading Nabokov's prose that ultimatelyleaves the greatest impression on the reader. ......