Pale fire

a novel

by Vladimir Nabokov

No cover — Vladimir Nabokov: Pale fire (1962, Weidenfeld and Nicolson)

315 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 1962 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

(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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