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248 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0141185260
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 31 August 2000
Description
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shades's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty an...
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248 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0141185260
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 31 August 2000
Description
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shades's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty an...