’Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov
‘Lolita’ is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a French middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with an American 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he bribes in exchange for sexual favors until she leaves him for another man.