Description
| Product ID: | 9781857151886 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
| Title: | Speak, Memory |
| Authors: | Author: Vladimir Nabokov |
| Page Count: | 344 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Russia, USA, American English, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century |
| Description: | 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. 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Everyman's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Everyman |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1999-03-29 |