Speak, Memory
Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
ISBN: 9781857151886
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Dec 1999
Pages: 352
Format: Hardback
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.
ISBN: 9781857151886
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Dec 1999
Pages: 352
Format: Hardback
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.
