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Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov

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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin,my soul. These are the opening lines of the book. The first line itself held me perplexed, astonished and extremely inquisitive to complete this book as soon as I can. Fair Warning- this is not the usual kind of a novel that has an understandable and agreeable storyline. Lolita is a story about a professor of English named Humbert Humbert who is tremendously attracted to small girls aged between 9-12, basically a pedophile. The man, who as an exceptional academic record, tries everything to get over this feeling of his, by seeing therapists, making himself understand that this is illegal and immoral and even by getting married. But nothing in the world makes his heart sway as it does when he sees a little girl, and he forgets everything for a second. This psychological stance of his, is connected to his younger years when he was a young boy and got attracted to a girl  named Annabel. They had their intimate moments and he was head ov