I found this intriguing comment on Lolita in an interview with Martin Amis:
... what also pricked me was something I read that a friend of mine wrote recently. A very intelligent and good, close reader, Craig Raine. Who said that the end was tacked on to justify this priapic riot that's been going on for two hundred and fifty pages. And I thought, no, no, no. It's there all along. I think it is the truth of the novel, that he is in wonderfully subtle moral control throughout. He outsoaringly anticipates every possible moral objection from page one.
Can anyone with a copy of this edition recommend it? I'm thinking of getting my hands on it for the introduction alone.
The cover looks like this:
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