Pale Fire

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Nabokov's suspenseful whodunit and one of his most acclaimed works

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141185262
Published: August 2000

Number of pages: 256
Width: 130 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 15 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd