You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent -- Martin Amis Observer A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age Independent 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 Lolita is more the shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny ... a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes Time A great novel ... It widens our own humanity Guardian 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 Redeeming, spendid, headlong, endlessly comic and evocative -- John Updike Rapturous ... incendiary Time Out From the Inside Flap 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.