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Mary : a novel

By Vladimir Nabokov ; translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny in collaboration with the author.

Book information

Publisher
Vintage International
Year
1989
ISBN
9780307787293, 030778729X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2119451 bytes)
Pages
1 online resource (xv, 114 pages)\0
Topic
Literature Prose
Time added
2014-04-28 03:37:20
Библиотека;Русская литература;На английском языке;

Description

Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living in the room next to Ganin's, who, he discovers, is Mary's husband, temporarily separated from her by the Revolution but expecting her imminent arrival from Russia.  Read more...

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