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Mary

By: Vladimir Nabokov
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
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Summary

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.

Public Domain (P)2010 Brilliance Audio
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“Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” (John Updike)

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