Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

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Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Part of Penguin Modern Classics series

Summary

An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia.

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Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography, which is itself a work of art.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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ISBN 13 9780141183220
ISBN 10 0141183225
Title Speak, Memory
Author Vladimir Nabokov
Series Penguin Modern Classics
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2000-10-26
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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