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.