Pale Fire

Book “Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov — August 31, 2000

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Book short specifications

Author
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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