Can anybody tell me something about LOLITA (is it a Novel?) ?!


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Can anybody tell me something about LOLITA (is it a Novel?) ?


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Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955. The novel is both famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject. The novel's narrator and main character, Humbert Humbert, becomes sexually obsessed with a young pubescent girl.

Lolita is also the title of two motion pictures based on the novel:

* in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick (where Nabokov was involved in the writing);
* in 1997 by Adrian Lyne.

Much to Nabokov's chagrin, the name has also become a slang term for a sexually attractive or precocious young girl. For more about these non-literary meanings of the term, see the end of this article.
Plot
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A scholar, Humbert leaves Europe for the United States and moves into a rented room in the home of Charlotte Haze, after seeing her twelve-year-old daughter (Dolores Haze, affectionately shortened to Lo, or Lolita) sunbathing in the garden. Humbert, who has had a lifelong passion for "nymphets" (attractive pubescent girls) - as a pre-adolescent, he experienced the loss of his childhood sweetheart to tuberculosis - is instantly smitten, and will do anything to be near her. The elder Haze, a lonely widow, becomes Humbert's unwitting pawn in his silent quest to be near her young daughter. She and Humbert soon marry. Some time later, while searching Humbert's room, she finds his diary, containing written confessions of indifference to his new wife and impassioned lust for her daughter. In disgust, she plans to flee her home with her daughter, whom she will send to a boarding school and beyond Humbert's reach. She writes three letters to settle some business before her departure, and in her mad hurry to mail the letters, she is hit and killed by a passing car.

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