Pale Fire

  • Pale Fire
    Pale Fire
    By Vladimir Nabokov

    A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue—and "one of the great works of art of this century" (Mary McCarthy)—from one of the leading writers of the 20th century.

  • Pale Fire
    By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

    Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college town

  • Pale Fire
    Pale Fire
    By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

    "An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, [this book] offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the...

  • Pale Fire
    Pale Fire
    By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically...

  • Pale Fire: A Poem in Four Cantos by John Shade
    Pale Fire: A Poem in Four Cantos by John Shade
    By R. S. Gwynn, Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov

    In the novel, Shade's mad neighbor, Charles Kinbote, absconds with the poem, compiling an ostensible line-by-line commentary that largely ignores Shade's text and heeds only his own egotism.

  • Pale Fire
    Pale Fire
    By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

    A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death.

  • Pale Fire
    Pale Fire
    By Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov

    This attractive box contains two booklets, the poem "Pale Fire" in a handsome pocket edition and the book of essays by renowned Nabokov authority Brian Boyd and poet R.S. Gwynn, as well as facsimiles of the index cards that John Shade (like ...

  • Pale Fire
    Pale Fire
    By Vladimir Nabokov

    A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death.

  • Pale Fire
    Pale Fire
    By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

    Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures in a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade.

  • PALE FIRE: New Writing on the Moon

    PALE FIRE: New Writing on the Moon