Question: What 1869 novel was a favorite of the writer known as Vladimir Sirin?

Context articles: Maschenka (1987 film)
The Return of Chorb
Oldtown Folks
A Matter of Chance
Mary (Nabokov novel)
Vladimir Nabokov
Details of a Sunset
King, Queen, Knave
Florence Montgomery
The Gift (Nabokov novel)

Maschenka (Russian: Машенька, Mashen'ka; English: Mary) is a 1987 British film adaptation of the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under his pen name V. Sirin in 1926.
 The film was directed by John Goldschmidt from a screenplay by John Mortimer and stars Cary Elwes as Ganin and Irina Brook as Maschenka.
"The Return of Chorb" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1925.
 In 1929 it became part of a collection of fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems also called The Return of Chorb (Russian: "Vozvrashchenie Chorba") in Russian by "V. Sirin".
Oldtown Folks is an 1869 novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
 Oldtown is a fictional name for the real town of Natick, Massachusetts, the native home of Harriett Beecher Stowe's husband, and many of the ideas in the book come primarily from his memories.
 "Oldtown Folks" has claim to be read as a religious novel and often discusses Puritan lifestyles as well as Calvinism and Arminian theology.
 In addition to these concepts and also the nature of a utopian society, this novel focuses on the question of reproduction and mothering.
 Written from the perspective of the main character, Horace Holyoke, the novel follows his life in post-American Revolution New England.
 It is divided into two volumes by the age of Horace and his friends.
A Matter of Chance is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924.
 It was rejected by the newspaper "Rul" and first published by the emigre magazine "Segodnya" in Riga.
 In 1974 it became part of a collection of thirteen stories called "Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories" published by McGraw-Hill.
Mary (Russian: Машенька , Mashen'ka), is the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under pen name V. Sirin in 1926 by the Russian language publisher "Slovo".
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков , ] , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; (April 22nd, 1899 — July 2nd, 1977) was a Russian-American novelist and entomologist.
 His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
Details of a Sunset is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924.
King, Queen, Knave is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928.
 It was published as "Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet)" in Russian in October of that year; the novel was translated into English by the author's son Dmitri Nabokov (with significant changes made by the author) in 1968, forty years after its Russian debut.
Florence Montgomery (1843–1923) was an English novelist and children's writer.
 Her 1869 novel "Misunderstood" was enjoyed by Lewis Carroll and George Du Maurier, and by Vladimir Nabokov as a child.
The Gift (Russian: Дар, "Dar" ; ISBN  ) is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind.
 Nabokov wrote it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin, and it was published in serial form under his nom de plume, Vladimir Sirin.