This is the original, first edition of the author's famous novel, that influenced generations of twentieth century authors and novelists and one of the most popular novels ever written, that marked a radical change in English literature. The most famous and controversial novel of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century in which awe and exhilaration along with heartbreak and mordant wit abound on the background of the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America but most of all, it is a meditation on love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation of personality.