Vladimir Nabokov: Mary (Penguin Modern Classics) [2009] paperback SLANG Twenty-four leading historians

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Vladimir Nabokov: Mary (Penguin Modern Classics) [2009] paperback SLANG Twenty-four leading historians'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 emigres. 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