Ada: or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov games 'Thorough and highly entertaining

'Thorough and highly entertaining

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Written as a series of linked essays

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Ada: or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov games 'Thorough and highly entertainingThis story of a mans 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 ingenious appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom. Ada, published just after Nabokovs seventieth birthday, is the supreme work of a virtuosic