Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. 1969 Published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969 Published in Penguin Books for sale outside the United Kingdom 1970 Published in Penguin Books for sale within the United Kingdom 1971 Copyright © McGraw-Hill International, Inc., 1969 Notes copyright © Vladimir Nabokov, 1970

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