Vladimir Nabokov's shocking masterpiece is now available in a beautifully designed hardcover edition. "Lolita" is described by Martin Amis as a comedy, subversive yet divine. The poet and pervert Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed with the twelve-year-old Lolita and attempts to possess her, first physically and then artistically, out of love, "to fix the dangerous magic of the nymphet once and for all." Is he in love or mad? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is infused with wild humor and rich, elaborate linguistic textures. The novel was adapted into a film in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, featuring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith. "Lolita" has lost none of its power to shock and astonish.