Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, <b>Ada, or Ardor</b> 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.   <b>Ada, or Ardor</b> is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.<br /><br />This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously  sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.