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Speak, Memory

An Autobiography Revisited

Introduction by Brian Boyd

An Autobiography Revisited

By Vladimir Nabokov

By Vladimir Nabokov

By Vladimir Nabokov
Introduction by Brian Boyd

By Vladimir Nabokov
Introduction by Brian Boyd

By Vladimir Nabokov

By Vladimir Nabokov

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Aug 28, 1989 | ISBN 9780679723394

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Mar 23, 1999 | ISBN 9780375405532

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    About Speak, Memory

    From one of the 20th century’s great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • “Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever.” —The New York Times

    Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov’s memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a life immersed in politics and literature on splendid country estates until their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when the author was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.

    About Speak, Memory

    From one of the 20th century’s great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. The Everyman’s Library edition includes, for the first time, the previously unpublished “Chapter 16″–the most significant unpublished piece of writing by the master, newly released by the Nabokov estate–which provided an extraordinary insight into Speak, Memory.

    Nabokov’s memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a life immersed in politics and literature on splendid country estates until their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when the author was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.

    About Speak, Memory

    From one of the 20th century’s great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • “Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever.” —The New York Times

    Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov’s memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a life immersed in politics and literature on splendid country estates until their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when the author was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.

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    About Vladimir Nabokov

    Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957),… More about Vladimir Nabokov

    About Vladimir Nabokov

    Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957),… More about Vladimir Nabokov

    About Vladimir Nabokov

    Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957),… More about Vladimir Nabokov

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 28, 1989 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679723394

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction Classics | Literary Criticism

    Hardcover | $23.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Mar 23, 1999 | 344 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780375405532

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 16, 2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780307787736
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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.” —The New York Times

    “When he is writing about someone or something he loves, he is irresistible; when he is writing about someone or something he despises, he can manage to enlist one’s sympathies, if only momentarily, for the object of his contempt.”  —The New York Review of Books

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