Lewis Carroll is celebrated for his fantastical language and logic, but it’s his heroine who lives on and on. Paul Di Filippo looks at Alice in guises old and new.
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 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.
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 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.
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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ISBN-13: | 9780679725220 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 02/01/1990 |
Series: | Vintage International Series |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 624 |
Sales rank: | 60,349 |
Product dimensions: | 5.15(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
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