Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

Hardcover

English language

Published June 15, 2002 by Barnes & Noble.

ISBN:: 978-1-4028-3061-7

(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.

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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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