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Pale Fire

Paperback • 2011 • English

Pale Fire

By Vladimir Nabokov

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About the book

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade''s editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the ''Great Beaver'', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should. Nabokov''s darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork ...Show more

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ISBN

9780141185262

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Pale Fire

Format

Paperback

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