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Speak, Memory
An Autobiography Revisited
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy beautifully crafted prose and rich, evocative narratives about life and memory. The author masterfully weaves personal history and reflection, bringing early 20th-century Russia vividly to life. It's perfect for those who appreciate literary biographies and introspective storytelling.
Speak, Memory
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents 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.
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The autobiography of one of the world's most talented and intriguing writers, reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics.
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.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Nabokov’s memoir delights readers with its clever anecdotes and beautiful prose, making it a consistently rewarding read. Admirers of Nabokov's fiction will especially enjoy the subtle nods to his literary works. It offers a captivating glimpse into a bygone world, filled with a charm and depth that is both nostalgic and enlightening.
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ISBN: 9780141183220
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 October 2000
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 214g
Pages: 288
About the Author
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 onwards, 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.
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