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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

By Vladimir Nabokov

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1990
ISBN
0679725229, 9780679725220
LCC
PS3527.A15 A65 1990
Open Library ID
OL2216764M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2518869 bytes)
Pages
264\264
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue.   Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously  sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.

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