Vladimir Nabokov

Ada, or, Ardor, a family chronicle

Sarah Sammis

Ada or Ardor is a complex and long book involving an alternate world where the Victorian world is mapped onto pangea, steam punk, a complicated family tree, word play and goodness knows what else. I think under different circumstances, I would enjoy the book but right now its just more than I can or want to handle. I'm not connecting with the characters nor particularly interested in the progression of the plot.

A Family Chronicle

Ada, or Ardor

Katie

Not to be dramatic but this is the best book I’ve ever read and I will read it 100 more times. I have not been this obsessed w a book since I was like 10. Life changing and beautiful and hellish and incoherent and dreamlike but lucid and hyperreal. What the fuck, Love u Vladimir

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, this is Nabokov's 'other' great love story; with some of Lolita's perversity and much more playfulness. Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture, in a book which is regarded by many to be Nabokov's richest and most ambitious.

Ada or Ardor

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ADA, Or, Ardor, a Family Chronicle

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Keya Markham

Ada, or, Ardor, a family chronicle

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