{"product_id":"ada-or-ardor-a-family-chronicle-hardcover","title":"Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVladimir Nabokov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrian Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful hardcover edition of one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the fantastical love story that was the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis story of a man's lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it manages also to be a fairy tale, an epic, a philosophical treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue. It concludes with an ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom. \u003ci\u003eAda, or Ardor, \u003c\/i\u003epublished just after Nabokov's seventieth birthday, is the supreme work of a virtuosic imagination at white heat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVLADIMIR NABOKOV \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003estudied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Introducer: BRIAN BOYD\u003c\/b\u003e is the University Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Auckland. His biography of Nabokov won awards on four continents; his criticism has been translated into seventeen languages. He has edited Nabokov's English-language novels, autobiography, butterfly writings, and translations from Russian poetry. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNabokov's \u003c\/i\u003eAda\u003ci\u003e The Place of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 551\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.26 x 8.17 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50781403349189,"sku":"9798217007776","price":43.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/eChlyTNFXZ9798217007776.webp?v=1792734695","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/ada-or-ardor-a-family-chronicle-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}