Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Hardcover

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297179357 ISBN 13: 9780297179351

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969

Synopsis

Some fading to shelf worn dust jacket, page edges tanned and marked. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About the Author:

One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0297179357
• ISBN 13: 9780297179351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 589