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Pale Fire
Sign in to savenovel, in the form of a commentary on a poem, by Vladimir Nabokov
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- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- First published
- 1945
- Editions
- 58
- Subjects
- Immigrants, Fiction, Kings and rulers, Assassination, American poetry, New York Times reviewed, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Genre
- antinovel
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Depicts
- East Slavic literature
- Image
- Blednyi ogon087.jpg
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- title
- 青白い炎
- publication date
- 1962-04-25
- language of work or name
- English language
- first line
- Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John Francis Shade (born July 5, 1898, died July 21, 1959) during the last twenty days of his life, at his residence in New Wye, Appalachia, U.S.A.
- last line
- Zembla, a distant northern land.
- number of pages
- 315
- form of creative work
- novel
- epigraph
- This reminds me of the ludicrous account he gave Mr. Langton, of the despicable state of a young gentleman of good family. “Sir, when I heard of him last, he was running about town shooting cats.” And then in a sort of kindly reverie, he bethought himself of his own favorite cat, and said, “But Hodge shan’t be shot: no, no, Hodge shall not be shot.”
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