Speak, memory, an autobiography revisited
/ Vladimir Nabokov
- New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1966 , c1947.
- 316 p. : illus., col. map (on lining papers) ports ; 22 cm.
Speak, Memory is a unique picture of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and emigre life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were cultured, liberal aristocrats, brave, eccentric, unconventional and above all, intensely human. "The present work is a systematically correlated assemblage of personal recollections...."