Speak, memory : an autobiography revisited / Vladimir Nabokov.
By: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
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Series: Everyman's library 188.Publisher: London : David Campbell, 1999Edition: Rev. and expanded ed. / with an introduction by Brian Boyd.Description: xxxv, 268 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781857151886.Subject(s): Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 | Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- BiographyDDC classification: 920 Summary: "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." - Copac
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Originally published as: Conclusive evidence. Previous ed.: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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." - Copac
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