Pale fire

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Vladimir Nabokov: Pale fire (1962, Weidenfeld and Nicolson)

315 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 1962 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

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A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.

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