Lolita

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