An edition of Pale fire: a novel (1962)

Pale Fire

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Cover of: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
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An edition of Pale fire: a novel (1962)

Pale Fire

by , , , and

  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 78 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

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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Barnes & Noble
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English

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Subjects
Immigrants, Fiction, Kings and rulers, Assassination, American poetry, New York Times reviewed, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature, Kings and rulersxAssassination, Authors in literature, Écrivains dans la littérature

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Pale Fire
June 2002, Barnes & Noble
Hardcover in English
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Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
August 31, 2000, Penguin Books
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Pale fire
1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
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Pale fire: a novel
1989, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage international ed.
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Blednyĭ ogonʹ
1983, Ardis
in Russian
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Pale Fire
November 15, 1977, Berkley
in English
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Pale Fire
1975, Berkley Books
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Pale fire
1972, Berkley Pub.
in English - New ed.
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Pale fire
1968, Berkley Books
in English - Berkley Medallion ed.
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Pale fire: a novel.
1962, Putnam
in English
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First Sentence

"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the falls azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky."

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OL9341148M
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1402830610
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9781402830617
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7714
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