'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography, which is itself a work of art.
ISBN: | 9780141183220 |
Publication date: | 26th October 2000 |
Author: | Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 255 pages |
Series: | Penguin Classics |
Genres: |
Autobiography: writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |