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Vladimir Nabokov : The American Years

2 reviews
Brian Boyd

Princeton University Press, 1993

The Biography Nabokov Deserves!
In my review of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years, I say that "I am grateful to Boyd for his serious scholarship, his lively prose, and his close analysis of Nabokov's oeuvre." That comment applies wholeheartedly to this volume as well. As a professor of literature at Cornell, Nabokov taught his students to focus on the details of literature. He taught them that the small details of a ...

Vladimir Nabokov : Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Speak, ...

4 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov

Library of America, 1996

Incredible writer doesn't deserve dirty old man rep
Picture Vladimir Nabokov. In the hall of mirrors that is popular culture, he is the dirty man who wrote the dirty book "Lolita," about a 12-year-old "nymphet" -- he invented the term, by the way -- and her affair with an older man. Angle the mirror another way, and he is one of the founders of the modernist novel, which to some people -- myself included -- that's a damning phrase. ...

Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry Selected and Translated by

5 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

V is for Victory
An eloquent book that should be in the library of any person interested in Russian poetry, Vladimir Nabokov and/or the difficult art of translation. Professors Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin have performed a notable service in organizing and bringing this fine collection to print. I am not knowledgeable about the subject poems (or the Russian language) so can not judge for certain if Mr. ...

Full Mouse, Empty Mouse: A Tale of Food and Feelings

1 review
Dina, Ph.D. Zeckhausen

Magination Press, 2007

A note to parents and discussion questions round out this "must-have" for children's reading lists
Written by Dina Zeckhausen, an expert in the field of eating disorders prevention, Full Mouse Empty Mouse: A Tale of Food and Feelings is a rhyming children's picturebook with an important underlying message about the importance of drawing the distinction between emotional craving for food and true hunger. Chapters teach young people how to separate "food" messages from "feelings" messages and ...

Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of Artistic Discovery

9 reviews
Brian Boyd

Princeton University Press, 2001

Nabokov's Sweet Madness
For Nabokov, nothing was ever as simple as it seemed. In fact, "simple" and "sincere" were two adjectives that he despised. While teaching at Wellesley College and later at Cornell, Nabokov would give a low mark to any student who used the words, "simple" and "sincere" in a paper. Nabokov was a writer who celebrated the complexities in life. He looked for unexpected meanings in even the most ...

Business & Legal Primer for Game Development

11 reviews

Charles River Media, 2006

Great book.
This is an enormously helpful book. It is one of the best intellectual property law and game development book on the market that I've read. It is an enjoyable as well as practical text.

When You Were Born in Korea: A Memory Book for Children Adopted from Korea

7 reviews
Brian E. Boyd

Yeong & Yeong Book Company, 1993

A missing piece of the puzzle for your adopted child.
As an adoptive parent of a Korean born child, I know firsthand that she had a life in Korea before ever becoming part of our family. Here is a way to fill in the missing pieces for her. Sooner or later your child will begin to ask questions. This book handles delicate issues in a gentle yet informative way. It's become our gift of choice to people we know who are new adoptive parents.

Nabokov: Novels, 1969-1974 (Library of America)

2 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov

Library of America, 1996

Amazing writer gives modernism a good name
Picture Vladimir Nabokov. In the hall of mirrors that is popular culture, he is the dirty man who wrote the dirty book "Lolita," about a 12-year-old "nymphet" -- he invented the term, by the way -- and her affair with an older man. Angle the mirror another way, and he is one of the founders of the modernist novel, which to some people -- myself included -- that's a damning phrase. ...

On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction

4 reviews
Brian Boyd

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

A major step forward
This is a very important book--important in its own right, but also important as a marker for significant change in the academic study of the humanities. For a generation or more, the humanities have resisted the developments which have occurred in the departments that surround them. Sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, cognitive science--a panoply of subjects that build upon the advanced ...

Kids Like Me in China

26 reviews
Ying Ying Fry, Amy Klatzkin

Yeong & Yeong Book Company, 2001

It sounds excellent!!!
By accident, i found this site! I am Chinese and my English teachers (They are a couple)were from the US. They also adopted a girl named Evie Xuezhi Braun from Changsha just the same city as Ying Ying.I was really moved by their adoptive actions when I heard they had no kids and wanna adopt a Chinese orphan. I can still remember the time they saw me off when I started for Shanghai to work there ...

Nabokov's Butterflies: Limited Edition

5 reviews
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Beacon Press, 2000

It Always Came Down To Butterflies
"From the age of seven, everything I felt in connection with a rectangle of framed sunlight was dominated by a single passion," wrote Valdimir Nabokov. "If my first glance of the morning was for the sun, my first thought was for the butterflies it would engender." This was certainly an unusual way in which to view the world and one that not many readers, even those who adore Nabokov, have ...

Vladimir Nabokov, Alphabet in Color

5 reviews
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Gingko Press, 2006

No student of Nabokov's literary work should pass up the opportunity to peruse this unique and original study
Renowned twentieth-century literary author Vladimir Nabokov maintained that he could "hear" color. Enhanced with the memorable and interpretative illustrations of Jean Holabird, Alphabet In Color showcases what Nabokov heard with respect to colors would manifest visually to the rest of us with charming, vibrant, synesthetic colored letters. No student of Nabokov's literary work (which included ...

DISAPPEARANCES: A NOVEL

10 reviews
Howard Frank [cover design by Tad Aronowicz, illustration by Brian Boyd] Mosher

McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1985

Almost indescribable
I was recommended this book by a friend while climbing Worcester Mountain near Middlesex, Vermont. I grabbed it just before a solo overnight on a section of the Long Trail. The only copy the store had was an autographed (for cover price), but the owner assured me that Mr. Mosher would appreciate my stuffing the book into my pack for a hike in the Green Mountains. I trusted the person who ...

Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness

1 review
Brian Boyd

Cybereditions Corporation, 2002

The Thrill of Artistic Discovery
I can only hope my Doctoral thesis will be this damn fascinating. A compulsive Nabokovian myself who laughed his way through Ada twice with all of the delightful puns and prose, lucid literary labyrinths, and meticulous mazes, never once did I think to connect in chapter ten (Botany Bay) Van's synonymous mollyblob with Molly Bloom (?!) which shows up later in the form of red ink, referring to ...

Waterfalls of the Southern Appalachians & Great Smoky Mountains

4 reviews
Brian A. Boyd

Fern Creek Press, 2001

Excellent trail descriptions.
I have used this book extensively in visiting many waterfalls in North Georgia. Mr. Boyd has done an excellent job in documenting trail descriptions and directions.

Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader

Columbia University Press, 2010

Evolution, Literature, and Film offers a comprehensive introduction to what has become the most challenging and widely-discussed new approach to understanding literature and film. Featuring thirty-nine essays by pioneering scholars, scientists, and critics, this collection explains how our universal human nature works its way into diverse cultural forms and how this "biocultural" conception can illuminate many narrative works. Evolution, ...

Vladimir Nabokov : The Russian Years

5 reviews
Brian Boyd

Princeton University Press, 1993

Behold the splendid Bird of Paradise!
Who would have thought that the world's foremost Nabokov expert is a Kiwi? Amazing. Boyd's two volume bio is a must for all Nabokovistas. He splits the life neatly between the Russian Years, ie from birth until emigration to the US, and American Years, ie the rest. Boyd tells us Nabokov's life story and interweaves the main prose works and their interpretations. While still a Russian novelist, ...

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