If you want to be surprised by the plot of Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark from 1938, skip the first two sentences.
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.
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