Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination’ The New York Times Book ReviewAda or Ardor is a romance that 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 l….Read More
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