Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Nabokov, Vladimir

ISBN 10: 0297179357 / ISBN 13: 9780297179351

Published by McGraw-Hill, 1969

About this Item

First edition, first printing stated: First Published in Great Britain 1969. Very nice hardcover has no writing inside except blacked-out copyright line on copyright page. Cover has slight rub to extremities of cover. Very good dust jacket has two small edge tears to back, light edge curling and wrinkling, and a tiny bit of rub to edges.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297179357
• ISBN 13: 9780297179351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, 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. About the Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born 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 émigré writers.

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.