Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0005464, Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:05:15 -0700

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Availability of Boyd's Nabokov's Ada?
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From: "Brian Boyd" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
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> Brian Boyd
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> I have no idea where you can find a copy of the Ardis edition of my
Nabokov's
> ADA: The Place of Consciousness, but an expanded edition, with some of my
> recent overviews of ADA (in The American Years; the Garland Companion to
> Vladimir Nabokov; the journal Europe; and perhaps the new Penguin
edition),
> and an Index, will be available before long from Cybereditions for $12.95
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