# Pale Fire

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- Book: [Pale Fire](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/pale-fire) ([Pale Fire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/pale-fire.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Nabokov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-286-8
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.