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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141191188Number of pages: 96Weight: 78 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 5 mm
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