Description
Product ID: | 9780141191188 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Title: | The Enchanter |
Authors: | Author: Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov |
Page Count: | 96 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as ''the first little throb of Lolita''. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2009-11-05 |