Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the émigré author of Lolita ; Pale Fire ; and Speak, Memory --wrote his books ...(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)

"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)

Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, these stories reveal the fascinating progress of N...(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)

Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, these stories reveal the fascinating progress of N...(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)

史黛西•希芙，1961年10月生于马萨诸塞州，曾就读于美国最著名的私立学校菲利普斯中学，1982年毕业于威廉学院，1990年前为西蒙-舒斯特出版社编辑，现为《纽约时报》专栏作家。古根海姆基金和美国国家人文基金得主。著有《圣埃克苏佩里传》（入围1995年普利策奖终选书目）、《伟大的即兴曲：富兰克林，法国与美国之诞生》（华盛顿图书奖和大使图书奖）、《薇拉：符拉基米尔•纳博科夫夫人》（2000年度普利策传记奖）、《克里奥帕特拉传》（2010年《纽约时报》畅销书榜）。另有文章见于《纽约客》、《纽约时报书评》、《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《华盛顿邮报》等刊物。 李小均，1973年11月生，复旦大学文学博士，深圳大学外语学院副教授，硕士生导师。现从事英美文学和翻译研究。著有《自由与反讽：纳博科夫的思想与创作》（百花州文艺，2007）、《傅雷：那远逝去的雷火灵魂》（文津...(展开全部)