Speak, Memory :An Autobiography Revisited - Penguin Modern Classics
Speak, Memory :An Autobiography Revisited - Penguin Modern Classics
paperback | English
Published:
26 October, 2000
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780141183220 |
| ISBN10 | 0141183225 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 218 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
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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. -- New York Times
[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. -- New York Times
[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. -- New York Times
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Author's Bio
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.