Series: Penguin Modern Classics Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK) (May 1, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0141181877 ISBN-13: 978-0141181875 Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Editorial Reviews 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. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. About the Author Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. He died in 1977.
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