Pale fire (Paperback)
Vladimirovich, Nabokov, Vladim (Author)
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The famous American poet John Shade was murdered in 1959. This text contains his last poem, Pale Fire, together with a foreword by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote.
Reviews
This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose . . . is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century
Mary McCarthy
Reviews
This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose . . . is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century
Mary McCarthy
ISBN (SKU)
9780141185262
Pages
248
Weight
193g
Dimensions
197x130x14
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Published
30, August, 2000
Genres
Fiction
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