Ada Or Ardor

Informationen zum Autor Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian! but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English! most famously! Lolita . Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels! short stories! plays! poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian émigré writers. He died in 1977. Zusammenfassung Follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate! in a 'dream-bright' America! through eighty years of rapture! as they cross continents! are continually parted and reunited! come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and! decades later! put their experiences into words.

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2012
• EAN: 9780141197135
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119713-5
• No. of pages: 720
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 50 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection; Penguin Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature