Pale Fire
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a stock image not a photo of the book you will receive. Cover design and colour may vary. Stock image does not show any wear and tear that the book may have. Pale Fire Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Books Published: 1973 Condition: Poor Condition. A reading copy with a specific fault such as writing inside, water damage, a missing dust jacket, heavy staining or creasing. Dispatched within one working day from our Yorkshire warehouse. Free UK delivery. About this book 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. 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.
- ISBN: 9780140036923
- Condition: Fair
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