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Printed fourteen days after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is among Nabokov's greatest projects, the wonderful finale of his job as a novelist.  It shows a love story stressed by incest.  But more: it's also at once a fairy-tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the character of time, parody of the real history of the book, and sensual catalogue.   Ada, or Ardor isn't any significantly less than the substantial function of an imagination at white heat.This may be the first National version to incorporate the substantial and ingeniously  sardonic appendix by the writer, created underneath the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.