This Library of America volume is the third of three devoted to Vladimir Nabokov, and contains the evanescent works of his later years. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov's novels, is a witty and parodic account of a man's lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokov's imagination. The linguistic richness of the book's free blending of English, Russian, and French is matched by the baroque and ...
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This Library of America volume is the third of three devoted to Vladimir Nabokov, and contains the evanescent works of his later years. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov's novels, is a witty and parodic account of a man's lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokov's imagination. The linguistic richness of the book's free blending of English, Russian, and French is matched by the baroque and dreamlike splendor of the alternate universe it creates, a universe in which time moves in more than one direction and all details are cunningly interrelated. Alfred Kazin wrote on its original publication: " Ada , coming after Lolita and Pale Fire , makes a trilogy with no contemporary peer." Transparent Things (1972) is a haunting novella of the anguished life of Hugh Person, a young American editor and proofreader: his marriage, the murder of his wife, and the lone journey to uncover the truth about the past. With its multiple narrative voices and fusion of dream and memory, it is among the most formally experimental of Nabokov's works. Look at the Harlequins! (1974), Nabokov's final novel, concerns Vadim Vadimovitch N., a novelist very much like Nabokov himself. This ironic, intricate hall of mirrors, startling in its shifts of tone and off-key echoes of Nabokov's earlier books, often blurs the line between the worlds of reality and of literary invention. Nabokov's penciled corrections in his own copies of his works are incorporated into these, the most authoritative versions available, and have been prepared with the assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's son. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1883011205. Number 89 in the Library of America series. Stated first printing. About fine in like dust jacket. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark.
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Very good. Box set edition w/ slight slip case scuffs. NO DJ. Pages are clean! This is a hardcover copy Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Fine in slipcase fine jacket. Size: 5x1x8; NOT an ex library book. Book with dark green cloth binding. Clean pages with ribbon marker. Slipcase has no splits.
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Fine Condition. No Dust Jacket as issued. Library of America series. Book comes in its original slipcase. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 1883011205. ISBN/EAN: 9781883011208. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23080.
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Fine. 1883011205. Library of America #89; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 825 pages; 1996 Library of America #89. Subscriber's version. Slipcased HC. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound unread copy. Publisher's pamphlet lacking. Prior owner was a subscriber of LOA from the very first book published and received all editions immediately upon publication. This volume unread and in sharp fresh slipcase. Fine.
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Very Good. Library of America First Printing. Slipcase and book are in very good condition. Dark green cloth boards. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.
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Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition THUS, first printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. An excellent copy; Jacket housed in protective mylar; Secure packaging for safe delivery.
