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Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

4.2
(148 ratings)
282 pages1945BerkleyISBN 9780425037843
ClassicsFictionClassicsGun violenceRacial slursClassismColonisationsuicidal thoughtsViolenceconfinementmysteriousA mix drivenStrong Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersDiverse CharactersMurderCharacter drivenStrong Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersNot Diverse CharactersmysteriousCharacter drivenStrong Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersNot Diverse CharactersCharacter drivenWeak Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersNot Diverse CharactersFictionPoetryAuthors in literatureunreliable narrator
challengingdarkreflectivemediumchallengingdarkfunnyreflectiveslowchallengingfunnyslowchallengingfunnymediumlightheartedreflective
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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
Berkley
Published
1945
Pages
282
ISBN
9780425037843
Language
en

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