# Pale Fire

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- Authors: [Vladimir Nabakov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1992-03-19

## 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 Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

## Editions

### Pale Fire

- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-14-7462-087-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2024-05-30
- Language: en_GB

### Pale Fire

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-526-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2016-08-04
- Language: en_GB

### Pale Fire

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-286-8
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB

### Pale Fire

- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-067-4
- Pages: 280
- Published: 1992-03-19
- Language: en_GB

### Pale Fire

- Publisher: everyman_s_library
- ISBN: 978-06-7941-077-5
- Pages: 280
- Published: 1992-03-10
- Language: en_US