num_pages: 606
description: 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 superb 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.
language: English
title: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
titlecomplete: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
characters: Demon Veen, Lucette Veen, Ada Veen, Van Veen
genres: 20th Century, American, Russia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 11419
places: Demonia or Antiterra
publisher: Vintage