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Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

1968214 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1968
first published
  • 1968Berkley Books · 214 pages · ENGISBN 9780425062388
  • 1972Berkley Pub. · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780425021552
  • 1989Vintage Books · 315 pages · ENGISBN 9780679723424
  • 1991Penguin · ENGISBN 9780140181685
  • 1992Knopf · 315 pages · ENGISBN 9780679410775
  • 2002Barnes & Noble · ENGISBN 9781402830617
  • 2011Muza · 300 pagesISBN 9788374958608
  • 1977Berkley · 226 pages · ENGISBN 9780425037843

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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