Cover of Pale Fire
Read Time: ~5.3 hr

Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov (1945)

About this book

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraClassic Era
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters

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