Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokovs most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent More...love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.

年屆四十的歐裔文學教授韓伯特，在美國小鎮邂逅了寡婦房東的十二歲女兒「蘿莉塔」，深深為少女那既孩子氣、又充滿妖異魅力的矛盾特質所著迷。於是他接近少女寂寞的寡母夏綠蒂、娶她為妻，理所當然成為了少女的繼父。

正當韓伯特為自己瘋狂的幻想與佔有慾感到罪惡，另一方面又處心積慮、自我欺騙地接近少女時，夏綠蒂偶然發現韓伯特的祕密日記，得知了丈夫的意圖，她在激烈爭執中衝出門外，卻意外車禍身亡。

於是，韓伯特帶著孤女蘿莉塔展開橫跨美國的漂泊之旅，而逐漸成長的蘿莉塔一方面在誘惑中採取主動，另一方面卻又暗自設法逃離繼父扭曲的掌控。這宿命中互相綑縛的兩人，便一路開向了萬劫不復的毀滅終點……