Book description
In Berlin there lived a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable
and happy but one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful
mistress he loved. He was not loved in return, however, and his life
ended in disaster. The original Russian text of this novel was published
in 1933. Vladimir Nabokov was born in St Petersburg in 1899, but he
left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. His family moved to
England for a brief spell and finally settled in Berlin. His first novel
in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941. His
other books include Ada, Laughter in the Dark, Details of a Sunset and
Lolita, his best-known novel. Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland in
1977.
