description: One often has to wonder what must have gone on in the mind of Vladimir Nabokov to create such abstruse masterpieces as Lolita. In this book, the narrator Humbert Humbert is a rather ordinary man, except for his not-too-healthy obsession: a fascination with pre-pubescent girls he calls "nymphets." In Lolita, a young girl from a small American town, Humbert gets his dream come true. His fantasies and pursuit and conquest of the object of his desire make for a twistingly funny and sad book, perhaps Nabokov's strangest success.
title: Lolita and Poems
titlecomplete: Lolita and Poems
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Spoken Arts