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...
Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, Mary, is a well written story about a youthful love. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 - 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин),...
'Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears' Guardian
Ganin, a young Russian exiled in Berlin between the wars, dreams of leaving the city while recalling his childhood and adolescence in Russia and his early romance with Mashenka, a desired and idealized woman, a lost love in the past.
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 ?migr?s, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His...
Mary - The Handmaid of the Lord is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1865. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...