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'Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears' Guardian

Lev 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 ...

Mary

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'Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears'... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 05/11/2009
    ISBN13: 9780141191478, 978-0141191478
    ISBN10: 0141191473

    Number of Pages: 128

    Fiction , Classics

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    'Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears' Guardian

    Lev 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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