Speak, Memory
Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
ISBN: 9780141183220
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2000
Pages: 272
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 16mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'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.
ISBN: 9780141183220
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2000
Pages: 272
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 16mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'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.
