# Speak, Memory

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- Book: [Speak, Memory](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/speak-memory) ([Speak, Memory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/speak-memory.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Nabakov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-322-0
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2016-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography, which is itself a work of art.