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Mary

Mary
Vladimir NabokovOriginal title Машенька (Russian, 1926)

Mary , is the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under pen name V. Sirin in 1926 by Russian-language publisher "Slovo".

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“… memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

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“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”

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