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As he waits for the pill to take effect, he wanders through the hotel and meets a mysterious man who seems to be aware of Humbert's plan for Dolores. Humbert knows he will feel guilty having sex with Dolores while she is conscious so tricks her into taking a sedative by saying it is a vitamin. He then takes her to a high-end hotel that Charlotte had earlier recommended. Humbert destroys the letters and retrieves Dolores from camp, claiming that her mother has fallen seriously ill and has been hospitalized. Disbelieving Humbert's false assurance that the diary is only a sketch for a future novel, Charlotte runs out of the house to send the letters but is hit and killed by a swerving car.

Shocked and humiliated, Charlotte decides to flee and writes letters addressed to her friends warning them of Humbert. Charlotte later discovers Humbert's diary, in which she learns of his desire for her daughter and the disgust he feels towards Charlotte. Initially terrified, Humbert then begins to see the charm in the situation of being Dolores' stepfather, and so marries Charlotte for instrumental reasons. When Dolores is sent to summer camp, Humbert receives a letter from Charlotte, who confesses her love for him and gives him an ultimatum-he is to either marry her or move out immediately. The impassioned Humbert constantly searches for discreet forms of fulfilling his sexual urges, usually via the smallest physical contact with Dolores. Humbert sees in Dolores the perfect nymphet, the embodiment of his old love Annabel, and quickly decides to move in. However, Charlotte leads Humbert to her garden, where her 12-year-old daughter Dolores (also variably known as Dolly, Lo, and Lola) is sunbathing. Humbert visits Charlotte's residence out of politeness and initially intends to decline her offer. In his search for a new home, he meets the widow Charlotte Haze, who is looking for a tenant. The house that he intends to live in is destroyed in a fire. In 1947, he moves to Ramsdale, a small town in New England, where he can calmly continue working on his book. Before the outbreak of World War II, Humbert moves to New York. This youthful and physically unfulfilled love is interrupted by Annabel's premature death from typhus, which causes Humbert to become sexually obsessed with a specific type of girl, aged 9 to 14, whom he refers to as ' nymphets'.Īfter graduation, Humbert works as an English teacher and begins editing an academic literary textbook, making passing reference to repeated stays in mental institutions at this time. He spends his childhood on the French Riviera, where he falls in love with his friend Annabel Leigh. The memoir, which addresses the audience as his jury, begins with Humbert's birth in Paris in 1910.

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Ray states that he is presenting a memoir written by a man using the pseudonym 'Humbert Humbert', who had recently died of heart disease while awaiting a murder trial in jail.

The novel is prefaced by a fictitious foreword by John Ray Jr., an editor of psychology books. 5.3 Other possible real-life prototypes.5.2 Literary pastiches, allusions and prototypes.It has been included in many lists of best books, such as Time 's List of the 100 Best Novels, Le Monde 's 100 Books of the Century, Bokklubben World Library, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, and The Big Read. It has also been adapted several times for the stage and has been the subject of two operas, two ballets, and an acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, Broadway musical. The novel has been twice adapted into film: once by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and later by Adrian Lyne in 1997. The novel was originally written in English and first published in Paris in 1955 by Olympia Press. 'Lolita' is his private nickname for Dolores. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old American girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests after becoming her stepfather. Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov.

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