Pale Fire
of Vladimir Nabokov
Description
The American poet John Shade is dead. 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? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be.Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 246 pages
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date 08/31/00
- First Publication 10/28/62
- Language English
- ISBN 9999999999999
- Edition Penguin Modern Classics
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['New Wye, Appalachia (United States)', 'Cedarn, Utana (United States)', 'Zembla']
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