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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
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Publication date Published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov's revised and extended edition appeared in 1966. From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." —The New York Times

Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a life immersed in politics and literature on splendid country estates until their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when the author was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.
   
Publishers G.P. Putnam's Sons 
   
Language English 
   
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Number of pages 178