It's love at first sight for international scholar Humbert Humbert when he meetsĪll-American girl Lolita Haze. His world at an end, Humbert gives Lolita all of his money and then goes to find Quilty. Humbert, his pride gone, begs her to come back to him, but she refuses, preferring to remain with her husband. Quilty abandoned the girl when she balked at becoming part of his 'weird' circle, and she married a younger man. When he visits her, she tells him that she left him for Quilty, who, in various disguises, pursued and tormented Humbert wherever he went with Lolita.

Some time later, Humbert receives a letter from Lolita in which she reveals that she is married and pregnant and asks for financial help. Both fall ill, and Lolita, hospitalized, disappears one night from her hospital room. They embark on a cross-country trip, but Humbert suspects that they are being followed. When he discovers that Lolita has used the cover of her performance in a school play for meetings with an unknown man, Humbert takes her from school. Lolita's interest in boys gives him no peace, however, and their relationship becomes strained as she chafes at his interference. Humbert retrieves Lolita from the summer camp where her mother had disposed of her and drives with her to Ohio, enrolling her in a private school.

Charlotte's possessiveness soon awakens murderous desires in Humbert, but the problem of her presence is solved when she reads his diary and, hysterical, runs into the path of an automobile. The girl so arouses Humbert's passion that to be near her he marries Charlotte, meanwhile recording his impressions of mother and daughter in a diary.

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. Humbert Humbert walks into the disordered mansion of amoral television playwright Clare Quilty and shoots the drunken, mocking author.

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