Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
- ISBN-10
- 0141183225
- ISBN-13
- 9780141183220
- Series
- Speak, Memory
- Category
- Authors, Russian
- Pages
- 255
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Authors
- Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Description
An autobiographical volume covering Nabokov's first 40 years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War II, telling of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, his passion for butterflies and his lost homeland.
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