Hubert Humbert is a middle-age fantasist, still in love with Annabel, his first sweetheart. She was a beautiful and pure young woman who died years ago of typhus. Out of the blue Humbert finds a girl fatally reminiscent of Annabel. Her name is Dolores; he rechristens her Lolita. But instead of the innocence he expects, Lolita gives him steamy pubescence. she is greedily sensual, eager to earn her way into womanhood.
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