Mary Author:Vladimir Nabokov Mary, written in 1975, is Nabokov's first novel. — Like his other early masterpieces, Mary bears witness to Nabokov's sensual mastery of language and to those qualities of inventiveness that have made him, in the words of one reviewer, "the most voluptuous, the most elegantly sexy writer going." — "In Mary we see him evoking the first of what beca... more »me an increasingly brilliant series of worlds."