The Enchanter

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

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Price : $19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780141191188
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.108
Publication date : 31 October 2009
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 7mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Series : Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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Edition : 1
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Language : English
Pages : 96
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Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. However, "The Enchanter" has an utterly different atmosphere, as time, place and even names remain a mystery. Nabokov transforms his protagonist's attempts to lull his twelve-year-old step-daughter into a state of 'enchantment' into a graceful, chilling fairytale.

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