Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited - The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection (Paperback)

Vladimir Nabokov (author)

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Paperback 288 Pages / Published: 26/10/2000

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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.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141183220
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 213 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm

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" 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"
" [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"
"[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"