Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

Humbert Humbert, scholar and self-proclaimed romantic, has fallen completely and utterly in love…with a twelve-year-old girl. He details his great sufferings in pursuit of this romance, going so far as to marry the child’s mother to be close to her, and then, when Lolita looks elsewhere for attention, kidnapping her in a desperate cross-country bid to preserve their connection.

The ultimate model of an unreliable narrator, Humbert is ruled by his desires, and Lolita, with its ingenious word play and controversial subject matter, is considered to be a masterpiece of obsession, delusion, and lust.

Sure to elicit interesting conversation, this book will be discussed over two meetings of the World Literature Book Group.