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Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov · 1945

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Publisher

"91"

Published

1945

Pages

315

Language

German

Authors

Vladimir Nabokov

Description

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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ImmigrantsFictionKings and rulersAssassinationAmerican poetryNew York Times reviewedContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)American literatureKings and rulersxAssassinationAuthors in literatureÉcrivains dans la littératureExperimental fictionRussian fictionTranslations into English
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