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Pale Fire - Penguin Classics
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Mary McCarthy

Reissue

Paperback (31 Aug 2000)


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 Shades 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.

Nabokovs darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.


Product details

Format Paperback | 256 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 15mm | 191g
Publication date 01 May 2010
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Repr.
ISBN10 0141185260
ISBN13 9780141185262
Bestsellers rank 8,463