Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Desc: 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 superb 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.