Pale Fire

Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction

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. This title is part of a major new beautiful hardback series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire", in Penguin Classics.


Product Information

He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language -- Anthony Burgess

Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. He died in 1977.

General Fields

  • : 9780141197241
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.398
  • : August 2012
  • : 196mm X 130mm X 27mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : November 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Vladimir Nabokov
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : 352