Ada or Ardor A Family Chronicle - Penguin Classics
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Reissue

Paperback (06 Apr 2000)


Publishers Synopsis

A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination The New York Times Book Review

Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncles 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.

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Nabokovs longest, richest novel is a love story, but also a fairy tale, a historical parody, an erotic satire, an exploration of the passing of time and a supreme work of the imagination.


Book information

ISBN: 9780141181875
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 06 Apr 2000
Edition: Reissue
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 497
Weight: 346g
Height: 199mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 23mm