Pale fire

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…

Pale Fire by Nabokov, Vladimir - ISBN 10: 0399504583 - ISBN 13: 9780399504587 - Perigee Trade - 1980 - Softcover

Jonathan Bass teaches multi-media composition, web authoring, and information design at Rutgers University. He also maintains a daily online drawing project, called Shorts, which he started in 2005. On this site, you'll find, among other things, course syllabuses and web pages, demos, drawings, diagrams, minimalist comics and other kinds of web comics, conference residua, lines of flight, as well as some literary and comics criticism.

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

From "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov. This is an incredibly optimistic viewpoint, because if you believe this, then you believe there is heaven to find on Earth. I really love that.

- vladimir nabakov: pale fire

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Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire.

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita, Ada, or Ardor) is not what one would call a traditional mystery story. You won’t find it among the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Father Brown, or Phillip Marlowe in the mystery section of your local bookstore. Instead it’s shelved in the classics section with Ulysses, The Adventures…