An edition of Pale Fire (1945)

Pale Fire

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Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nab ...
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An edition of Pale Fire (1945)

Pale Fire

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  • ★★★★ 4.0 (5 ratings)
  • 118 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 13 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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Berkley
Language
English
Pages
213

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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, Experimental fiction, Russian fiction, Translations into English

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Cover of: Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
August 31, 2000, Penguin Books
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire
1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire: a novel
1989, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage international ed.
Cover of: Pale Fire
Pale Fire
1985-12, Berkley
in English
Cover of: Blednyĭ ogonʹ
Blednyĭ ogonʹ
1983, Ardis
in Russian
Cover of: Pale Fire
Pale Fire
November 15, 1977, Berkley
in English
Cover of: Pale Fire
Pale Fire
1975, Berkley Books
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire
1972, Berkley Pub.
in English - New ed.
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire
1968, Berkley Books
in English - Berkley Medallion ed.
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire: a novel.
1962, Putnam
in English
Cover of: pale fire
pale fire
1962, corgi books
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."

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7502507M
ISBN 10
0425093220
ISBN 13
9780425093221
OCLC/WorldCat
223387083, 4329393
LibraryThing
7714
Goodreads
1234053

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OL627081W

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