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Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady’s twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he’ll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? This is a silver-tongued poet or a pervert?

A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age ― Independent

There’s no funnier monster in modern literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert. Going to hell in his company would always be worth the ride ― Independent

A great novel . . . It widens our own humanity ― Guardian

You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent — Martin Amis ― Observer

Nabokov’s command of words, his joy in them, his comic and ecstatic use of them, makes reading his work such an intense joy ― Daily Telegraph

Lolita is more the shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny … a Medusa’s head with trick paper snakes ― Time