Pale Fire
- ISBN-10
- 0141185260
- ISBN-13
- 9780141185262
- Series
- Pale Fire
- Category
- Authors in literature
- Pages
- 316
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Description
A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.
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