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Ada, or Ardor : A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
Ada or Ardor A Family Chronicle - Vintage International
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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 histo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679725220
ISBN-10: 0679725229
Publication Date: 2/19/1990
Pages: 624
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is the only book by Nabokov that I have been unable to finish reading. It became too bogged down and seemed, to me, that he was trying to make a point that he could write anything and people would read it simply because his writing was so beautiful.


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