His wife has written to the sister of Miss Phalen to have her daughter enrolled in the St. Algebra boarding school, but those plans goes unfulfilled when she is(*) killed by a car, shortly after finding the protagonist's diary.
The protagonist of this work spent some time as a "recorder of psychic reactions" for an Arctic expedition whose real purpose is "hush hush." He first comes to the United States for a sinecure in a deceased uncle's perfume business, and later makes his way to a small town in New Hampshire where he meets his future wife, whom he imagines drowning at Hourglass Lake. His wife has written to the sister of Miss Phalen to have her daughter enrolled in the St. Algebra boarding school, but those plans goes unfulfilled when she is(*) killed by a car, shortly after finding the protagonist's diary. After her death, the protagonist is able to live alone with her 12-year-old daughter, the title "nymphet." For 10 points, name this novel narrated by Humbert Humbert, a work of Vladimir Nabokov.
The protagonist of this work spent some time as a "recorder of psychic reactions" for an Arctic expedition whose real purpose is "hush hush."
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