Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
An edition for this ISBN with an older cover may be found here.’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….Read More
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