Think, write, speak - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful.' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019

The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak
brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from
across the author's extraordinary career.

Each phase of his wandering
life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at
Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication
of Lolita to the final, fascinating interviews given shortly before his death in 1977.

Introduced
and edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this is an essential work for
anyone who has been drawn into Nabokov's literary orbit. Here he is at
his most inspirational, curious, playful, misleading and caustic. The
seriousness of his aesthetic credo, his passion for great writing and
his mix of delight and dismay at his own, sudden global fame in the
1950s are all brilliantly delineated.