Pale Fire
- ISBN-10
- 0307787656
- ISBN-13
- 9780307787651
- Series
- Pale Fire
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-02-16
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
Description
In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.
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