Author(s): Nabokov, Vladimir,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 31/08/2000,
Pagination: 256 pages,
Series: Penguin Modern Classics,
Imprint: Penguin Classics,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Fiction & related items,
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 16
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780141185262
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 31/08/2000,
Pagination: 256 pages,
Series: Penguin Modern Classics,
Imprint: Penguin Classics,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Fiction & related items,
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 16
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780141185262
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.