Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.
“And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him": First Edition of Vladmir Nabokov's Ada
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.
NABOKOV, Vladmir.
Item Number: 100437
New York: McGraw-Hill Company, 1969.
First edition of what many consider to be Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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. Scholar Alfred Appel writing in The New York Times Book Review called it "a great work of art, a necessary book, radiant and rapturous" and said that it "provides further evidence that he is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce."
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