Pale Fire
With an Introduction by Mary Gaitskill
$25.78
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2024
Summary
‘One of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Its heart is strange, but it is huge; let yours beat in response’ MARY GAITSKILL
Pale Fire, a 999-line poem, is the final work of the celebrated - and recently murdered - American author, John Francis Shade.
Here that poem is transcribed, introduced and annotated (at length) by Shade’s fellow scholar, neighbour and apparent friend, Charles Kinbote.
Approaching this task with gusto, Kinbote’s annotatio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474620871 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474620876 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
| Series: | W&N Essentials |
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About The Author
Vladimir Nabokov
VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH NABOKOV was born on 23 April 1899, in St Petersburg, Russia, the elder son of an aristocratic, cultured, politically liberal family. As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Cambridge. Between 1923 and 1940, he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language. In 1940 he, his wife and son moved to America, where he taught at Wellesley, Harvard and Cornell. His best-known novel, Lolita, brought him worldwide fame. In 1973 he was awarded the American National Medal for Literature. He died in 1977 in Montreux, Switzerland.
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