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PALE FIRE
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| By: |
Vladimir Nabokov, Mary McCarthy |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0141197242 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780141197241 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
6 September, 2012 |
| Series: |
The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. Part of a major new beautiful hardback series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Classics |
| Returns: |
Returnable |