Pale fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
Edition: Berkley Medallion ed.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780425062388; 9780425046364
Copyright date: 1962
Subjects: Kings and rulers; Assassination; American poetry; Fiction
Description: A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.