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Pale Fire: Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

Pale Fire: Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

by Richard Rorty (Introduction), Vladimir Nabokov (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 280
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Everyman
Published: 19 Mar 1992
ISBN 10: 1857150678
ISBN 13: 9781857150674

Author Bio
One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) was born in St Petersburg, but left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. His first novel in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941. His other books include Ada or Ardor (1969), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Pale Fire (1962), the short story collection Details of a Sunset (1976) and Lolita (1955), his best-known novel.