Pale Fire
4.2
(148 ratings)282 pages1945Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780141912868
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About this book
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 1945
- Pages
- 282
- ISBN
- 9780141912868
- Language
- en
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