The only convincing love story of our century. --Vanity Fair Lolita blazes with a perversity of
a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof
intellectual farce...Lolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest
delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels
I have ever read and the vision of its abominable hero who never deludes or excuses himself
brings into grotesque relief the cant the vulgarity and the hypocritical conventions that
pervade the human comedy. --Atlantic Monthly Intensely lyrical and wildly funny. --Time The
conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special
kind in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a
measure of tragic sympathy...The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and
their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art. --The
New Yorker Lolita is an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and serious
reflection-a revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors. --San Francisco Chronicle From the
Hardcover edition.
