Pale Fire

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.

• Author
• Vladimir Nabokov

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 256

• Series
• Penguin Modern Classics

• Publisher
• Penguin Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-118526-2

• EAN
• 9780141185262

• Release date
• 2000