Pale Fire
Pale Fire
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Desc: 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 be. Nabokov's darkly witty richly inventive masterpiece 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.