Ada or Ardor - Vladimir Nabokov • BookLikes (ISBN:0141197137)

Ada or Ardor

by: Vladimir Nabokov (author)

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Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9780141197135 (0141197137)

Publish date: September 6th 2012

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Pages no: 691

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Literature, 20th Century

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Keely rated it

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I came to a strange realization while reading this book: that practically every instance I can think of where an author used an unreliable narrator, it's always the same character: he's an intelligent, introspective guy with a slight cynical mean streak, a man with a fairly high opinion of himself (...

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bookshelves: fraudio, published-1969, slavic, autumn-2013, amusing, families, incest-agameforallthefamily, fantasy, spring-2015, tbr-busting-2015, lit-richer, classic Read from August 14, 2013 to March 10, 2015 Description: Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one...

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{ lunochka reads } rated it

11 years ago

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There's no "or" about this book: it's Ada and ardour, and it's genius. All right, I'll admit that Mr Nabokov takes some getting into. Accessible he ain't. Delicious, however, delicious he is and this is like a perfect bread pudding: layers coming together to create something you don't know you'll ...

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