Ada or Ardor
a family chronicle
$25.81
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
21 June 2000
Summary
Ada or Ardor: A Love Story Beyond Compare
Nabokov’s sweeping romance chronicles an extraordinary love affair spanning decades and continents.
Written in a mischievous and magically fluid style, Ada or Ardor begins with Ada and Van Veen’s initial encounter on a country estate in a “dream-bright” America. The story follows their passionate journey through eighty years of rapture, marked by continents crossed, separations, and reunions. As time unfolds, they uncover th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141181875 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141181877 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 21 June 2000 |
| Weight: | 341g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even ‘God’s own novelist’ (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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