Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition
'Lolita is comedy subversive yet divine' Martin Amis Poet and pervert Humbert Humbert becomes
obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her first carnally and then
artistically out of love 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love
or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions
in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece which is suffused with a savage humour and rich elaborate
verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers and
again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith Lolita has lost none
of its power to shock and awe.
