Round 11: Tossup 13

A playwright in this novel interrupts a man’s attempts to murder him by playing the piano and crawling into bed. This novel’s narrator imagines “the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down” while pronouncing the name of a girl he believes was “corrupted” at a summer camp. This novel is presented as a psychologist reviewing the writing (15[1])of a teacher whose first love was a girl named (*) Annabel Leigh. This novel’s title character runs off with the author of The Enchanted Hunter, Clare Quilty, after her mother Charlotte is mysteriously hit by a car. For 10 points, the pedophile Humbert Humbert obsesses over the “nymphet” Dolores Haze in what novel by Vladimir Nabokov? ■END■

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