The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a com...(展开全部)

This title is part of the fabulous new hardback library of 22 Vladimir Nabokov books, publishing over the coming year, with an elegant new jacket and text design. The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of tho...(展开全部)

弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫，纳博科夫是二十世纪公认的杰出小说家和文体家。 一八九九年四月二十三日，纳博科夫出生于圣彼得堡。布尔什维克革命期间，纳博科夫随全家于一九一九年流亡德国。他在剑桥三一学院攻读法国和俄罗斯文学后，开始了在柏林和巴黎十八年的文学生涯。 九四〇年，纳博科夫移居美国，在韦尔斯利、斯坦福、康奈尔和哈佛大学执教，以小说家、诗人、批评家和翻译家身份享誉文坛，著有《庶出的标志》《洛丽塔》《普宁》和《微暗的火》等长篇小说。 一九五五年九月十五日，纳博科夫的代表作品《洛丽塔》由巴黎奥林匹亚出版社出版并引发争议。 一九六一年，纳博科夫迁居瑞士蒙特勒；一九七七年七月二日病逝。

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, see...(展开全部)

In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, see...(展开全部)

丹尼·华莱士（Danny Wallace），英国著名的畅销作家、电影制片人、演员、电台和电视台节目主持人。擅长都市温情题材，他的作品被称为现代“人间喜剧”。 除与他人合著的作品外，他之前的多部独立创作的作品取得了巨大的成功，《Join Me》受到《书商》《每日邮报》等媒体的高度赞誉；《好好先生》被改编成电影，由好莱坞喜剧天王金·凯瑞主演，荣登北美周末票房榜冠军；第三部作品《这样的朋友》被《书商》杂志称为“又一部喜剧大作”，电影版权已售米拉麦克斯电影公司…… 《GQ》杂志称他为“英国了不起的写作天才之一”，他在英国男性时尚杂志《ShortList》上的专栏每周有超过130万的读者，是2011年英国期刊协会专栏作家。他还主持着一档非常受欢迎的晨间节目。 最新作品《奇遇夏洛特街》甫一出版即售15国版权，电影版权已售著名的电影公司Working Title（...(展开全部)