An edition of Pale Fire
(1945)
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
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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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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| Edition | Availability |
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Pale fire: a novel
1989, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage international ed.
0679723420 9780679723424
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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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