Rapturous ... incendiary * Time Out * Redeeming, spendid, headlong, endlessly comic and evocative -- John Updike 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 * Lolita is more the shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny ... a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes * Time * His command of words, his joy in them, his comic and ecstatic use of them...makes reading his work such an intense joy * Daily Telegraph * A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age * Independent * You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent -- Martin Amis * Observer *.
