# The Enchanter

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- Authors: [Vladimir Nabokov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-10-03
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Short stories, Fiction in translation

## Description

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.

## Editions

### The Enchanter

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-118-8
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2017-06-01
- Language: en_GB

### The Enchanter

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-833-8
- Published: 2013-10-03
- Language: en_GB

### The Enchanter

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-886-3
- Pages: 144
- Published: 1991-07-20
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [Čaroděj](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/cs/carodej) (cs_CZ)
- [Der Zauberer](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/de/der-zauberer) (de_DE)
- [El hechicero](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/es/el-hechicero) (es_ES)
- [Czarodziej](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/pl/czarodziej) (pl_PL)