Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
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About This Item
ISBN: 9780141185262
Penguin Books Ltd, 01 May 2010
Soft cover, 256 pages
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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- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0141185260
- ISBN 13
- 9780141185262
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- August 31, 2000
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