A reprint of one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Published under the editorship of the expert of the Nabokov Foundation Andrei Babikov, correcting errors noticed and preserving some of the features of Nabokov's spelling, transliteration and punctuation. Now it is a classic of world literature, a novel that no connoisseur of fine and clever prose. The book entered the lists of the main books of the century according to the versions of the Newest Library, Le Monde and Time. But when Nabokov finished the work in 1954, no American publishing house dared to get involved with the publication of the novel. In the end, consent was given by the French publishing house Olympia Press, which produced avant-garde and erotic literature. Since then, the novel has been banned and cursed, extolled and idolized. The story of thirty-seven-year-old Humbert Humbert's passion for his twelve-year-old stepdaughter Dolores is one of the first literary works devoted to a large-scale study of the topi