The Enchanter by Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov

114 pages first pub 1939 (editions)

fiction classics challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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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 obsessi...

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