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Speak, Memory

  • Imprint: Everyman

  • ISBN: 9781857151886

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm x 25mm

  • Weight: 489g

  • RRP: £10.99

Speak, Memory

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.

  • Imprint: Everyman

  • ISBN: 9781857151886

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm x 25mm

  • Weight: 489g

  • RRP: £10.99

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About the Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Vladimir Nabokov

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