Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Copyright

First Vintage International Edition, August 1989

Copyright 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, © 1967 by Vladimir Nabokov

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published, in different form, by Harper & Bros., New York, in 1951. This edition published by arrangement with the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977.

Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited / by

Vladimir Nabokov.

p. cm.—(Vintage international)

Rev. ed. of: Conclusive evidence. 1951.

eISBN: 978-0-307-78773-6

1. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977—Biography. 2. Authors, Russian—20th century—Biography. 3. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. I. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977. Conclusive evidence. II. Title.

PG3476.N3Z477 1989

813’.54—dc 19

[B] 88-40528

Cover art by Michael Bierut

Cover photograph by Alison Gootee

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