Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male, by Vladimir Nabokov, is a story about Humbert Humbert, a literature professor in his late thirties, obsessed with a twelve-year-old Dolores Haze. The novel consists of a preface, two parts and the author's annotation. The book starts with the foreword written by fictitious editor named John Ray, Jr., Ph.D., who explains the story that will follow. He states that he received Lolita's manuscript from Humbert Humbert's lawyer and that Humbert died in jail waiting for a trial.
