Ada or Ardor - Couverture rigide

Nabokov, Vladimir

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0141197137 ISBN 13 : 9780141197135

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Vladimir Nabokov

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose by the acclaimed author of Lolita and Pale Fire, Ada 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 learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words.Part of a major new beautiful hardback series of Vladimir Nabokov's work in Penguin Classics.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141197137
• ISBN 13: 9780141197135
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 720