| Vladimir Nabokov: |
| Pale Fire A Poem in four Cantos by John Shade |
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| Edited by Brian Boyd / Illustrated by Jean Holabird Commentary by Brian Boyd and R.S. Gwynn |
| Many think Pale Fire is Nabokov’s 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, albeit by an invented persona. |
| Now readers can see the text for themselves, fresh from Shade’s hands, before Kinbote commandeered it so shamelessly. |
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