From one of the 20th century\'s great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time.
For the next eighteen years he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russi.
As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922.
The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.
Four years later he was shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to shield the speaker from right-wing assassins.
In 1919, following the Bolshevik revolution, he took his family into exile.
The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets.
Petersburg, Russia. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) About the Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St.
Speak, Memory vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.
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.
Nabokov\'s memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and migr life in Paris and Berlin.
The Everyman\'s Library edition includes, for the first time, the previously unpublished "Chapter 16"-the most significant unpublished piece of writing by the master, newly released by the Nabokov estate-which provided an extraordinary insight into Speak, Memory.
Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966.
From one of the 20th century\'s great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time
