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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Vladimir Nabokov
A beautiful hardcover edition of one of Nabokov’s greatest masterpieces, the fantastical love story that was the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.
This story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it manages also to be a fairy tale, an epic, a philosophical treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue. It concludes with an ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom. Ada, or Ardor, published just after Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, is the supreme work of a virtuosic imagination at white heat.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 14, 2025 |
| ISBN13 | 9798217007776 |
| Publishers | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Pages | 624 |
| Dimensions | 213 × 137 × 34 mm · 618 g |
| Language | English |
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