Synopsis
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. 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.
Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork 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.
Product details
Format :
ePub eBook
ISBN: 9780141912868
Published : 31 Aug 2000
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Other formats for Pale Fire:
» Paperback : £12.00
» Hardback : £20.00
Pale Fire
Introduction by - Mary McCarthy
£9.18
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