PALE FIRE

Many think Pale Fire is Nabokovs greatest novel. At its heart beats a 999-line poem, penned by its fictional hero, John Shade. This first-ever facsimile edition of the poem shows it to be not just a fictional device but also a masterpiece of American poetry, al beit by an invented persona.In the novel, Shades mad neighbor, Charles Kinbote, absconds with the poem, compiling an ostensible lin e-by-line commentary that largely ignores Shade's text and heeds only his own egotism. Kinbotes commentary, the bulk of the novel, is an insane c...[Read more]