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Speak, Memory is a memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book includes individual essays published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov's revised and extended edition appeared in 1966.
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
- 1951
Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov’s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Luhzin Defense.
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- Vladimir Nabokov
Aug 28, 1989 · Speak, Memory is a loose collection of correlated and somewhat chronological personal short story memoirs by Vladimir Nabokov. These cover approximately the first forty years of his life, though they mostly focus on his childhood years growing up in Russia and Europe.
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- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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Speak, Memory, autobiographical memoir of his early life and European years by Vladimir Nabokov. Fifteen chapters were published individually (1948–50), mainly in The New Yorker. The book was originally published as Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir (1951); it was also published the same year as Speak, Memory: A Memoir.
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Mar 23, 1999 · Vladimir Nabokov. Follow. Speak, Memory Hardcover – Illustrated, March 23 1999. by Vladimir Nabokov (Author), Brian Boyd (Introduction) 4.4 641 ratings. See all formats and editions. From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time.
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Apr 17, 2021 · Speak, memory : an autobiography revisited : Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
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.
