Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Nabokov, Vladimir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140086234 ISBN 13: 9780140086232

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1987

Synopsis

'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.

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About the Author

Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian émigré writers. He died in 1977.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140086234
• ISBN 13: 9780140086232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256