Charlotte Haze, a sexually frustrated widow, is anxious to rent him a room in her house, but her overbearing manner nearly drives him away until he meets her precocious adolescent daughter, Lolita. Humbert then recalls the events that began 4 years earlier: Newly arrived from England, Humbert, a staid middle-aged professor and translator of French poetry, plans to spend the summer in New Hampshire before moving on to a position as a lecturer at an Ohio college. The book have won numerous recognition as well as criticism due to its controversial nature.Humbert Humbert walks into the disordered mansion of amoral television playwright Clare Quilty and shoots the drunken, mocking author. The rest of story revolves around Humbert’s obsession with Lolita and its end. He nicknames her Lolita and starts fantasizing about her. While finding a place to live in, Humbert encounters Dolores, 12 year old daughter of his landlady. The novel explores life of Humbert and his obsession with young girls. Nabokov has written the book in form of memoir of a literary scholar under pseudonym Humbert Humbert. It explores their relation as well as the obsession of Humbert for Lolita. Then the story proceeds on how he meets Lolita. Starting from his Parisian background to his interest in young girls which he calls nymphets. Ray presents The Confessions of a White Widowed Male which is written by Humbert Humbert. John Ray Jr., who is an editor of psychology books. The story starts with a fictional foreword of Dr. The book we are talking about is unique in a lot of the ways, some of the things about this book are extremely uncommon and some of the things about this book also make it one of the controversial as well. There is a ton of the literature books available in the market, but some of the literature books are simply unique than any of the others.
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