Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country has just thrown off centuries of tyranny, but new waves of domination inunda...(展开全部)

Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country has just thrown off centuries of tyranny, but new waves of do...(展开全部)

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor i...(展开全部)

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, this is Nabokov's 'other' great love story; with some of Lolita's perversity and much more playfulness. Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture, in a book which is regarded by many to be Nabokov's richest and most ambitious.

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, this is Nabokov's 'other' great love story; with some of Lolita's perversity and much more playfulness. Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture, in a book which is regarded by many to be Nabokov's richest and most ambitious.

杜鲁门·卡波特，美国著名作家，两次获得欧•亨利短篇小说奖。1924年生于新奥尔良，17岁受雇于《纽约客》开始写作生涯。1948年处女作《别的声音，别的房间》获得世界性的成功。1958年，奠定其大师地位的杰作《蒂凡尼的早餐》出版。1966年，完成了巅峰之作《冷血》。1984年8月25日晚，敏感、复杂和饱受争议的卡波特，因用药过度，猝死于友人家中，终年59岁。

伊沃·安德里奇(1892—1975)，前南斯拉夫文学大师，诺贝尔文学奖得主。小说家、诗人、散文家、游记作家、文学批评家。 一战时参加爱国运动而被捕入狱，惨遭流放，在此期间目睹并经历了种种苦难，获释后任职高级外交官。二战时期拒绝与法西斯合作，写下构思巧妙的史诗代表作“波斯尼亚三部曲”——《德里纳河上的桥》《萨拉热窝女人》《特拉夫尼克纪事》。 国家解放后，担任南斯拉夫作协主席，创作了多部极具特色的中短篇小说。曾获南斯拉夫作家协会奖和一级人民勋章。 1961年，因“以史诗般的气魄从你的祖囯的历史中找到了主题并且描绘了人类的命运”，成为第1位荣获诺贝尔文学奖的巴尔干地区作家。

伊沃·安德里奇(1892—1975)，前南斯拉夫文学大师，诺贝尔文学奖得主。小说家、诗人、散文家、游记作家、文学批评家。 一战时参加爱国运动而被捕入狱，惨遭流放，在此期间目睹并经历了种种苦难，获释后任职高级外交官。二战时期拒绝与法西斯合作，写下构思巧妙的史诗代表作“波斯尼亚三部曲”——《德里纳河上的桥》《萨拉热窝女人》《特拉夫尼克纪事》。 国家解放后，担任南斯拉夫作协主席，创作了多部极具特色的中短篇小说。曾获南斯拉夫作家协会奖和一级人民勋章。 1961年，因“以史诗般的气魄从你的祖囯的历史中找到了主题并且描绘了人类的命运”，成为第1位荣获诺贝尔文学奖的巴尔干地区作家。