A forty-year-old writer and rentier, after moving from Paris to America, falls in love with a twelve-year-old provincial schoolgirl, the desire to possess which becomes his disastrous mania. Bringing Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) world fame, technically one of the most perfect of his books - daring, deep, witty, piercing and lively - Lolita (1955) invariably divides readers into two categories: admiring connoisseurs of bright art and all the rest. In the mid-60s, Nabokov created a Russian version of his favorite book, making various additions and refinements to it. Russian edition saw the light in New York in 1967. Despite the ban, which lasted until 1989, Lolita was widely distributed in the USSR and had a significant impact on all subsequent Russian literature. PDF A4 saved publishing design.