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      The Enchanter

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      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 p...

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      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.

      However, The Enchanter has an utterly different atmosphere, as time, place and even names remain a mystery. Nabokov transforms his protagonist''s attempts to lull his twelve-year-old step-daughter into a state of ''enchantment'' into a graceful, chilling fairytale.


      Imprint Name:Penguin Classics
      Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2009-11-05

      Additional information

      Weight82 g
      Dimensions196 × 129 × 8 mm