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Ada, or, Ardor, a family chronicle / Vladimir Nabokov.
LIBRA PS3527.A15 A65 1990 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Series:
- Vintage international.
- Vintage international
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 606 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage International Edition.
- Other Title:
- Ada.
- Ardor, a family chronicle.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [1990]
- Summary:
- Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
- Notes:
- "First Vintage International Edition, February 1990."
- "Originally published by McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, in 1969"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0679725229 :
- 9780679725220
- OCLC:
- 20217072
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