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Also by Vladimir Nabokov:

The Original Of Laura, November 2009
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Lolita, March 1999
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Speak. Memory, September 1989
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Invitation to a Beheading, September 1989
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Pnin, June 1989
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Pale Fire, April 1989
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PALE FIRE
By: Vladimir Nabokov

"This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose . . . is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century."

Vintage
April 1989
320 pages
ISBN: 0679723420
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In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self- styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

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