Vladimir Nabokov did not want Lolita, his “poor little girl,” to become a cover girl for Lolita, his most celebrated and controversial novel. Instead, he asked that the cover of his book — a novel whose plot revolves around a grown man’s sexual desire for young girls — showcase an American landscape. In a letter to the book’s first American publisher, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, he requested the following for the jacket’s design: “I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn