Lolita Vladimir Nabokov [best] -

What makes the novel an enduring classic is not merely its shocking subject matter, but the tension between its sublime, poetic prose and the moral depravity of its protagonist. 1. Plot Summary: The "Confession" of Humbert Humbert

The book is actually a tragedy of language —a demonstration that beautiful sentences can justify evil, and that the reader must learn to distrust beauty. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov