Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

214 pages

English language

Published July 15, 1968 by Berkley Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-425-06238-8
OCLC Number:: 12108967

(1 review)

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.

37 editions

loppear reviewed Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's library)

Wish for more layers of wrinkles

4 stars

Absurdly wonderful, manipulative without being a mystery, adventurous and so mundane.

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Kings and rulers
Assassination
American poetry
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