An edition of Pale fire: a novel
(1962)
Pale fire
a novel
1st Vintage international ed.
by Vladimir Nabokov, Uwe friesel (Nachwort), Uwe Friesel, and Robert Blumenfeld Marc Vietor
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Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college town.
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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, Experimental fiction, Russian fiction, Translations into EnglishShowing 9 featured editions. View all 43 editions?
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Pale fire: a novel
1989, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage international ed.
0679723420 9780679723424
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Includes index.
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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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