Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives
A masterpiece of black comedy by the author of The Master and Margarita.When Maxudov's novel fails, he attempts suicide. When that fails, he dramatizes his novel. To Maxudov's surprise - and the resentment of literary Moscow - the play is accepted by the
The White Guard is less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, but it is a lovely book, though completely different in tone. It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells the story of the Turbin family and the war'
Sashka and Kolka are orphaned twins. During world war II, they struggle for survival in a Moscow orphanage where food is scarce. When a tunnel to the bread room is discovered, the boys fear they will be punished and so they volunteer to travel to a new in
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