Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Craig Raine

Lolita

Humbert – researcher, person of good taste and sentimental – has fallen totally and completely enamored with Lolita Haze, his landlord’s gum-snapping, luxurious cleaned twelve-year-old girl. Reluctantly consenting to wed Mrs Haze just to be near Lolita, Humbert endures enormously in the quest for sentiment; however when Lo herself begins searching for consideration somewhere else, he will cart her away on a frantic crosscountry misfortune, all for the sake of Love. Clever, ostentatious, unfortunate and brimming with keen word play, Lolita is a flawless, exceptional magnum opus of fixation, fancy and desire.