Speak, Memory - An Autobiography Revisited

Informationen zum Autor Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century! as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include! from the Russian novels! The Luzhin Defense and The Gift ; from the English novels! Lolita ! Pnin ! Pale Fire and Ada ; the autobiographical Speak! Memory ; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak! Memory are published in Penguin. Zusammenfassung Recollects the author's 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.

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov Vladimir
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2012
• EAN: 9780141197180
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119718-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies