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Mary the First Novel By the Author of Lolita and Ada

Vladimir Nabokov

  • 168 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1926
  • 42 editions
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1 About this book

Mary (Russian: Машенька, Mašen'ka) is the first novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under the pen name V. Sirin in 1926 by Russian-language publisher "Slovo".

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  • Exiles
  • First loves
  • Russians

2 About Vladimir Nabokov

1899–1977

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin, where he met his wife, Véra Nabokov (née Slonim).

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