Ada, Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" - Nabokov's other great love story - offers even more sexual and imaginative surprises than Lolita. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van on his uncle's country estate, in a "dream-bright" America, through eighty years of rapture, Nabokov's longest, richest, most ambitious novel also becomes, as Brian Boyd says, a great many other things: myth, fairy tale, utopian idyll, family chronicle, personal memoir, historical romance, erotic catalogue... picture gallery and filmic folly.