# Mary

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- Book: [Mary](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/mary) ([Mary.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/mary.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Nabokov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-1819-286-0
- Published: 2012-03-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian émigrés. 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 ...