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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141185262Number of pages: 256Weight: 191 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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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
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