Mary
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Mary
（Penguin fiction）（Penguin modern classics）（Penguin classics）
Penguin Books, 2009
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First published in U.S.: 1970
First published in U.K.: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971
Published in Penguin classics 2009, reprinted in Penguin classics 2017
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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 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 for her arrival, when he can whisk her away and leave everything behind ...
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