NABOKOV, Vladmir.
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.
Taipei City: Royal Books Co., Ltd , 1969.
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“And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him": First Taiwanese Edition of Vladmir Nabokov's Ada
First Taiwanese edition of what many consider to be Nabokov's masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket with chipping and small losses to the front panel. Author photograph by Halsman.
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. Scholar Alfred Appel writing in The New York Times Book Review called it "a great work of art, a necessary book, radiant and rapturous" and said that it "provides further evidence that he is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce."
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.
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