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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 Nabokovs novels, is a witty and parodic account of a mans lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokovs imagination. The linguistic richness of the books 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 Nabokovs works. Look at the Harlequins! (1974), Nab

Author

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Publisher

Library of America; Library of America, The; Literary Classics of the United States; Literary of the United States

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781883011208

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.42 / 5 (484 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14