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Mary (Russian: Машенька) or Mashen'ka, is the name of Vladimir Nabokov's first novel. First published in 1926 by the Russian language publisher Slovo, it is the story of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a Russian émigré, displaced by the Russian Revolution. Ganin is now living in a boarding house in Berlin, and dreaming of his long-lost first love, Mary. The eponymous Mary never appears in the present of the novel, but only in Ganin's reminiscences. During his thoughts, Ganin discovers that Mary is now the wife of the rather unappealing boarder next door, and that she will be joining her husband soon. Ganin contrives a complex scheme in order to reunite with Mary, who he believes still loves him.
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Russian: "The Wood-Sprite" • "Russian Spoken Here" • "Sounds" • "Wingstroke" • "Gods" • "A Matter of Chance" • "The Seaport" • "Revenge" • "Beneficence" • "Details of a Sunset" • "The Thunderstorm" • "La Veneziana" • " Bachmann" • "The Dragon" • Christmas" • "A Letter That Never Reached Russia" • "The Fight" • " The Return of Chorb" • " A Guide to Berlin" • " A Nursery Tale" • "Terror" • " Razor" • "The Passenger • "The Doorbell" • "An Affair of Honor" • "The Christmas Story" • " The Potato Elf" • " The Aurelian" • "A Dashing Fellow" • "A Bad Day" • "The Visit to the Museum" • "A Busy Man" • " Terra Incognita" • "The Reunion" • " Lips to Lips" • "Orache" • "Music" • "Perfection" • "The Admiralty Spire" • " The Leonardo" • "In Memory of L. I. Shigaev" • "The Circle" • "A Russian Beauty" • Breaking the News" • "Torpid Smoke" • "Recruiting" • "A Slice of Life" • " Spring in Fialta" • "Cloud, Castle, Lake" • "Tyrants Destroyed" • "Lik" • "Vasiliy Shishkov" • "Ultima Thule" • "Solus Rex"
French: "Mademoiselle O"
English: "The Assistant Producer" • "That in Aleppo Once..." • "A Forgotten Poet" • "Time and Ebb" • "Conversation Piece, 1945" • "Signs and Symbols" • "First Love" • "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" • " The Vane Sisters" • "Lance" • "Easter Rain"
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Death • The Grandfather • The North Pole • The Tragedy of Mr. Morn • The Man from the USSR • The Event • The Waltz Invention
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Speak, Memory • Strong Opinions • Nikolai Gogol • Lectures on Literature • Lectures on Russian Literature • Lectures on Don Quixote • The Nabokov-Wilson letters • Selected Letters, 1940-1977 • Notes on Prosody
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