Nabokov writes in the text that he was dissuaded from titling the book "Speak, Mnemosyne" by his publisher, who feared that readers would not buy a "book whose title they could not pronounce". It was first published in a single volume in 1951 as "Speak, Memory" in the United Kingdom and as "Conclusive Evidence" in the United States. The Russian version was published in 1954 and called "Drugie berega" (Other Shores). An extended edition including several photographs was published in 1966 as "Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited". In 1999 Alfred A. Knopf issued a new edition with the addition of a previously unpublished section titled "Chapter 16".