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320 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780297168157
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Putnam
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The American poet John Shade is dead. 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, inquisitiv...
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320 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780297168157
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Putnam
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The American poet John Shade is dead. 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, inquisitiv...