Lolita

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, `to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets`. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert`s seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov`s dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.