Ada or Ardor (The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection) - Hardcover

Nabokov, Vladimir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141197137 ISBN 13: 9780141197135

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose by the acclaimed author of Lolita and Pale Fire, Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words.

Part of a major new beautiful hardback series of Vladimir Nabokov's work in Penguin Classics.

About this title

About the Author

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141197137
• ISBN 13: 9780141197135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 720