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reviewed Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's library)

Vladimir Nabokov: Pale fire (1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House) 4 stars

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's …

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5 stars

Designed to be read in any order. It consists of a poem written by one narrator and annotations by another narrator who may be an exiled European king or may be an exile from a lunatic asylum. Pomo, read now.