Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Vladimir Nabokov

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On an alternate Earth called Antiterra, Van and Ada Veen begin a lifelong love affair that turns out to be far more complicated than either expects. Nabokov's longest and most ambitious novel is rich with wordplay, literary allusion, and provocation.

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