布赖恩•博伊德，新西兰奥克兰大学英语系杰出教授，对美国、巴西、英国、希腊、爱尔兰、新西兰及俄罗斯的小说、戏剧、诗歌、散文以及从史诗到喜剧的翻译多有著述，成果在四大洲荣获多种奖励，并被译成12种文字。他最富盛名的学术成果包括《纳博科夫的<阿达>：意识之地》（1985,2001），两卷本传记《纳博科夫传：俄罗斯时期》（1990）、《纳博科夫传：美国时期》（1991），《纳博科夫的<微暗的火>：艺术发现的魅力》（1999），网站“阿达在线”，此外还编有八卷本的纳博科夫小说、回忆录、蝴蝶著述、诗歌翻译及诗集，最近的一卷是《微暗的火》（2011）。他对文学与进化论的研究也很著名，成果包括《论故事的起源：进化、认识与小说》（贝尔克纳普/哈佛，2009）以及合编的《进化、文学与电影读本》（2010）。 刘佳林，1965年11月生，上海交通大学人文学院中文系副教授，...(展开全部)

This story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy - until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Nabokov (1899-1977) fled France with his family in 1940, just before German tanks rolled into Paris. In the U.S. he settled into a peripatetic life of permanent impermanence, and much of the first half of this volume is crammed with minutiae on his teaching, writing and lecturing. But Boyd illuminates the contours of Nabokov's mind with ...(展开全部)

"This is the first comprehensive account of Nabokov's life and oeuvre. The book's wide-ranging research and deep affinity for Nabokov's writings should establish it as the single indispensable source on its subject for many decades to come."--Simon Karlinsky, University of California, Berkeley This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twent...(展开全部)

"This is the first comprehensive account of Nabokov's life and oeuvre. The book's wide-ranging research and deep affinity for Nabokov's writings should establish it as the single indispensable source on its subject for many decades to come."--Simon Karlinsky, University of California, Berkeley This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twent...(展开全部)

This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late i...(展开全部)

This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late i...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters， a large middle-class London family， from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endures and remembers heart-break， loss， radical change and stifling conformity， marriage and regret. Written in 1937， this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's nov...(展开全部)

弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫（Virginia Woolf，1882—1941），英国女作家，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义文学的先锋。第二次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的核心人物，是布卢姆茨伯里派的成员之一。最知名的小说包括《达洛维太太》、《到灯塔去》、《雅各的房间》等。 吴尔夫革新了英语语言，在小说中尝试意识流的写作方法，试图描绘在人们心底里的潜意识。她在文学上的成就和创造性至今仍然产生很大的影响。

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters， a large middle-class London family， from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endures and remembers heart-break， loss， radical change and stifling conformity， marriage and regret. Written in 1937， this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's nov...(展开全部)