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Who is this book for? Readers who appreciate complex narratives and literary criticism.

Topics IdentityPowerSurvival
MoodDark, Suspenseful, Reflective
HumorOccasional Humor
ViolenceMild
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.

Language

en

Published on

01/01/2010

Pages

272

Format

Unknown Binding

ISBN

9780141185262

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