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Mary

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 16, 2011 - Fiction - 144 pages
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.


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Don't know what the point of this was. It took me a few hours to read and I'm still not really too sure what happened. I like the style of writing, but nothing in its pages gripped me or compelled me ... Read full review

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User Review  - John Beck - Goodreads

http://andalittlewine.blogspot.com/2012/11/book-review-mary-by-vladimir-nabokov.... Vladimir Nabokov's Mary is the story of a man with the opportunity to be reunited with an old flame. Nostalgia is a ... Read full review

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and essayist was awarded the National Medal for Literature for his life's work in 1973. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. He is the author of many works including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and Speak, Memory.

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