Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
SKU: B9781841594361 • Barcode: 9781841594361

Ada or Ardor

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  • Format: Hardback
  • Main subject: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
  • Genre / subject: Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
  • Author: Vladimir Nabokov
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov is a novel for adult readers.

A beautiful hardcover edition of one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the fantastical love story that was the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. This story of a man's lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it manages also to be a fairy tale, an epic, a philosophical treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue.

It concludes with an ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom. Ada, or Ardor, published just after Nabokov's seventieth birthday, is the supreme work of a virtuosic imagination at white heat. Nabokov is the most allusive and linguistically playful writer in English since Joyce, and like "Pale Fire" and "Lolita," his new novel abounds in delightful minor parodies and pastiches, countless multilingual puns and literary jokes.

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