NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
Nabokov: Novels 1969-1974: Ada, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins!
New York: The Library of America , 1996.
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“You lose your immortality when you lose your memory”: First edition of the Library of America release of Nabokov's Ada, Transparent Things, and Look at the Harlequins!
First edition of the Library of America release of the author's novels published between 1969 and 1974. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. Scholar Alfred Appel writing in The New York Times Book Review called it "a great work of art, a necessary book, radiant and rapturous" and said that it "provides further evidence that he is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce."
Nabokov: Novels 1969-1974: Ada, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins!
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