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Name: Pale Fire

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Year: 1962
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Genres/categories:
Classic, Poetry
Culture: Russia

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ISBNs:
9780679410775
0679723420
0679410775

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.