Pale Fire
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Series
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- August 31, 2000
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-118526-2
- GTIN
- 9780141185262
- Weight, g
- 242
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
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 is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
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