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**Speak, Memory** is an autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book includes individual essays published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov's revised and extended edition appeared in 1966. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak,_Memory))
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- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Gallimard, Brilliance Audio, Pyramid Books
- Editions
- 63
- Language
- Dutch, Portuguese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9783499136399
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“THE cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков; 23 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov's *Lolita* (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked at #4 in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. *Pale Fire* (1962) w
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