Ada or Ardor

Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction

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. This title is part of a major new beautiful hardback series of Vladimir Nabokov's work in Penguin Classics.

General Information

  • : 9780141197135
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Classics
  • : 0.66
  • : 31 August 2012
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 December 2012
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Vladimir Nabokov
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : 813.54
  • : 720

More About The Product

Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 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 emigre writers. He died in 1977.