![]() ‘Speak, Memory’ is the autobiographical memoir of Vladimir Nabokov, author of the infamous Lolita, and is set during the twilight era of the Russian Tsars and the uprising of the Bolshevists. ![]() Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography which is itself a work of art. And immediately a host of enchanting recollections came flooding back to him 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. ![]() ![]() This Penguin addition with additional ‘Chapter 16’ was published 2000. Date Published: Originally published under the title ‘Conclusive Evidence’ in America and ‘Speak, Memory’ in England in 1951. ![]()
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