Speak, Memory: an autobiography revisited

Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN 10: 1857151887 / ISBN 13: 9781857151886

Published by Everyman, 1999

About this Item

Millennium Project edition. Ex school library, usual stamps, dust jacket sleeved and stuck to the boards. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Speak, Memory: an autobiography revisited
• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857151887
• ISBN 13: 9781857151886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • collectable > Everyman's
  • Books > Antiquarian
  • rare

About this title

Synopsis

An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, and his passions for butterflies and his lost homeland. Written in this writer's characteristically brilliant, mordant style, this book is also a tender record of lost childhood and youth in pre-Revolutionary Russia.

About the Author

Vladimir Nabokov (Author)
One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) was born in St Petersburg, but left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

His first novel in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941. His other books include Ada or Ardor (1969), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Pale Fire (1962), the short story collection Details of a Sunset (1976) and Lolita (1955), his best-known novel.

Brian Boyd (Introducer)
Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor of English, University of Auckland, has long been associated with the work of Vladimir Nabokov, as annotator, bibliographer, biographer, critic, editor, translator and more. His works have appeared in nineteen languages and won awards on four continents.