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Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire
Pale Fire

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

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Description

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?

This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose . . . is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Penguin Classics
  • Pub date
    Aug 2000
  • Pages
    256
  • Theme
    Modern and contemporary fiction
  • Dimensions
    198 x 129 x 15 mm
  • Weight
    191 gram
  • EAN
    9780141185262
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Language
    English

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