Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

No cover — Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire (1962, Putnam Adult)

English language

Published May 28, 1962 by Putnam Adult.

ISBN:: 978-0-399-12161-6

(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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