Nabokov, V.V.

Speak, Memory an Autobiography Revisited

New York: G.P. Putnam`s Sons, 1966.

Item #11155

Hardcover, 316 pp.

"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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