Essays on Lolita

Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955 in Paris and later translated into English by Nabokov himself. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor called Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather.
The novel was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and Lolita has become a synonym for a sexually precocious girl.