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Speak, Memory (An Autobiography Revisited)
by
Vladimir Nabokov
July 6, 2019 - July 6, 2019
(read/memoirs)
Nabokov, V. (1996). Speak, Memory (An Autobiography Revisited). Vintage.
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But in England, at least in the England of my you…
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[...] the sense of leaving Russia was totally ecl…