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Mary

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'Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears' GuardianLev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian émigrés.

Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary.

Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due to arrive at this very house soon.

He longs for her arrival, when he can whisk her away and leave everything behind ...

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Penguin Classics
0141191473 / 9780141191478
Paperback / softback
05/11/2009
United Kingdom
English
Classics
144 p.
20 cm
Reprint. This translation originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970; London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.