Ada or Ardor A Family Chronicle

Nabokov, Vladimir

ISBN 10: 0297179357 / ISBN 13: 9780297179351

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969

About this Item

Dust jacket is age-toned and particularly sunned at spine with rubbed titling, corners bumped and worn, upper spine and rear upper panel chipped, notable tear to front lower left corner but no loss, price unclipped; boards are slightly darkened at outer edges, gilt titling bright, corners bumped; binding is tight; pages are age-toned but unmarked. A good first UK edition. ; 5.75 x 1.5 x 8.75 inches; 576 pages. Seller Inventory # 56658

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ada or Ardor A Family Chronicle

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-

Edition: First UK Edition.

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.