


30.My listlessness ended after I pulled Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography Speak, Memory from my bookshelf, more or less at random. Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography, which is itself a work of art.

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. 9780141183220 Speak, Memory 30.7000 NZD InStock /shop/books/non-fiction/biography-memoir /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction The autobiography of one of the world's most talented and intriguing writers, reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics The autobiography of one of the world's most talented and intriguing writers, reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics 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-Revolutiona.
