It is curious to see how the common connotation of Lolita so vastly differes then the original Vladimir Nabokov character, Dolores Haze. I have always found it interesting that the term Humbert has never come to mean pedophile, while the term Lolita has come to mean whore, strumpet, vixen, etc. Nonetheless, the book is one of the most gorgeous works of prose I have ever read. To think, Nabokov's native tongue wasn't even English.