Mary
A gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia. • Written in 1925, Mary is Nabokov’s first novel. Like his other early masterpieces, it bears witness to Nabokov’s sensual mastery of language.
“In MARY we see him evoking the first of what became an increasingly brilliant series of worlds.” – Newsweek
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…
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November 20, 1989Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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Letters to Véra
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The Original of Laura
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Selected Poems of Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov; Edited by Thomas Karshan
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by David Lodge
Vintage Nabokov
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Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Brian Boyd
Lolita: A Screenplay
Vladimir Nabokov
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Martin Amis
A Hero of Our Time
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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Richard Rorty
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov