A rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including LOLITA, PNIN, DESPAIR, THE GIFT and others.

A rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including LOLITA, PNIN, DESPAIR, THE GIFT and others.

'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young...(展开全部)

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. The Everyman's Library edition includes, for the first time, the previously unpublished "Chapter 16"--the most significant unpublished piec...(展开全部)

Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century. Trollope was born in 1815, the son of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father. Poor, ill-dressed, awk...(展开全部)

阿加莎·克里斯蒂原名为阿加莎·玛丽·克拉丽莎·米勒，一八九〇年九月十五日生于英国德文郡托基的阿什菲尔德宅邸。她几乎没有接受过正规的教育，但酷爱阅读，尤其痴迷于歇洛克·福尔摩斯的故事。 第一次世界大战期间，阿加莎·克 里斯蒂成了一名志愿者。战争结束后，她创作了自己的第一部侦探小说《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》。几经周折，作品于一九二○正式出 版，由此开启了克里斯蒂辉煌的创作生涯。一九二六年，《罗杰疑案》由哈珀柯林斯出版公司出版。这部作品一举奠定了阿加莎·克里斯蒂在侦探文学领域不可撼动的地位。之后，她又陆续出版了《东方快车谋杀案》、《ABC 谋杀案》、《尼罗河上的惨案》、《无人生还》、《阳光下的罪恶》等脍炙人口的作品。时至今日，这些作品依然是世界侦探文学宝库里最宝贵的财富。根据她的小 说改编而成的舞台剧《捕鼠器》，已经成为世界上公演场次最多的剧目；而在影视改编方面...(展开全部)

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels ...(展开全部)

安德烈·阿加西（Andre Agassi） 美国职业网球运动员，获得过60个冠军头衔，8次夺得大满贯冠军。1999年在法网史诗般的胜利，使其成为男子网坛第一位金满贯选手。2006年在美网退役，结束了21年辉煌的职业生涯。 与演员、模特波姬·小丝有过著名的恋爱和短暂的婚姻。2001年10月22日，与有“德国女皇”之称的网球运动员施特菲·格拉芙结为夫妇，育有一儿一女，现居拉斯维加斯，那也是他出生的地方。

安德烈·阿加西（Andre Agassi） 美国职业网球运动员，获得过60个冠军头衔，8次夺得大满贯冠军。1999年在法网史诗般的胜利，使其成为男子网坛第一位金满贯选手。2006年在美网退役，结束了21年辉煌的职业生涯。 与演员、模特波姬·小丝有过著名的恋爱和短暂的婚姻。2001年10月22日，与有“德国女皇”之称的网球运动员施特菲·格拉芙结为夫妇，育有一儿一女，现居拉斯维加斯，那也是他出生的地方。

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels ...(展开全部)