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 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.
language: German
title: Ada oder Das Verlangen. Aus den Annalen einer Familie.
titlecomplete: Ada oder Das Verlangen. Aus den Annalen einer Familie.
characters: Ada Veen, Demon Veen, Van Veen, Lucette Veen
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Russian Literature, Russia, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 11426
places: Demonia or Antiterra
publisher: Rowohlt, Reinbek