Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Nabokov, Vladimir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140181695 ISBN 13: 9780140181692

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1991

Synopsis

An autobiography, revealing Nabokov's comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, army of relations and family hangers-on and of lovely civilized houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-revolutionary Russia. Vladimir Nabokov is the author of "Pale Fire" and "Lolita".

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Review

"[Nabokov] has fleshed the bare bones of historical data with hilarious anecdotes and with a felicity of style that makes "Speak, Memory" a constant pleasure to read. Confirmed Nabokovians will relish the further clues and references to his fictional works that shine like nuggets in the silver stream of his prose." --"Harper's""Scintillating...One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." --"New York Times"

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: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140181695
• ISBN 13: 9780140181692
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256