# Laughter in the Dark

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- Book: [Laughter in the Dark](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/laughter-in-the-dark) ([Laughter in the Dark.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/laughter-in-the-dark.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Nabakov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-181-6
- Published: 2012-03-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In Berlin there lived a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable and happy but one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress he loved. He was not loved in return, however, and his life ended in disaster. The original Russian text of this novel was published in 1933.