A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew. It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lo...(展开全部)

A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew. It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lo...(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.

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)

弗朗索瓦·瓦克（Françoise Waquet），法国国家科学研究中心研究主任，著有欧洲文化史专著多种，包括《王朝复辟时期或旧制度重现下的王室节庆》《法国模式与博学的意大利：文学界的自我意识与对他人的感知，1660—1750》《文坛朝圣者赫罗诺维厄斯：探讨17 世纪的学术之旅》《文学界》等。

库尔特•冯尼古特（Kurt Vonnegut，Jr.，1922—2007），美国作家，黑色幽默文学代表人物之一，1959年因《泰坦的海妖》成名，《纽约时报》称其为“一个真正的艺术家”。代表作有《猫的摇篮》《冠军的早餐》《第五号屠宰场》《没有国家的人》等。

库尔特•冯尼古特（Kurt Vonnegut，Jr.，1922—2007），美国作家，黑色幽默文学代表人物之一，1959年因《泰坦的海妖》成名，《纽约时报》称其为“一个真正的艺术家”。代表作有《猫的摇篮》《冠军的早餐》《第五号屠宰场》《没有国家的人》等。