Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin,my soul.Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap,at three,on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo,plain Lo,in the morning,standing four feet ten in one sock.

In October he met Edmund Wilson who became his close friend (until their falling out two decades later) and introduced Nabokov's work to American editors. Many other subtle. His remains were cremated and are buried at the Clarens cemetery in Montreux.

Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel and often considered his finest work in English. S. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose.