Ada Author:Vladimir Nabokov Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, "Ada", or "Ardor: A Family Chronicle" 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... more » the novel, and erotic catalog. Ada is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.« less