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As well as writing novels, nabokov wrote works of nonfiction. American authors, biography, russian authors, russian short stories. Speak, memory is primarily concerned with nabokovs life prior to his emigration to america in 1940. The book was originally published as conclusive evidence. Nabokovs sentences are absolutely magical in this book. There is, to be sure, an impressionistic whirl through the authors. The book includes individual short stories published between 1936 and 1951 to. A newspaper clipping about nabokovs death, with the book.
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