Vladimir Nabokov's shocking masterpiece is now available in a beautifully designed clothbound edition. "Lolita" is described as comedy, subversive yet divine, by Martin Amis. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed with twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, "to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets." Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with savage humor and rich, elaborate verbal textures. The novel was filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith. "Lolita" has lost none of its power to shock and awe.