Vladimir Nabokov

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ADA, Or, Ardor, a Family Chronicle: A Family Chronicle more books like this
by Nabokov, Vladimir




This memoir of a lifetime of incest is written from the point of view of a doctor named Van Demonovitch Veen, with commentary by his sister/lover Ada and edited by Ronald Oranger (an anagram of the book's title). Its two main characters were admittedly loathed by their creator. Nabokov called it his "most cosmopolitan and poetic" novel. It is...