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Pale Fire
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Pale Fire
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?
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Pale Fire is a novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full, and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is lauded for its unique structure, blending poetry and prose into a compelling narrative. Critics praise its beauty, originality, and moral depth, considering it a significant artistic achievement of the 20th century, despite its intentionally peculiar presentation.
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ISBN: 9780141185262
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 August 2000
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 189g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers.
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