Mary by Vladimir Nabokov, M. Glenny

Author: Vladimir Nabokov, M. Glenny
eBook Title: Mary
ISBN10: 0297002694
ISBN13: 978-0297002697
Language: -
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd; First Edition edition (February 1971)
Category: Literature & Fiction
Subcategory: Literary
Size ePub vers.: 1516 kb
Size PDF vers.: 1273 kb
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In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic 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.

“Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” —John Updike