Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Classic
Narrator: Marc Vietor
Tags: Classic, Humor, Adults, Literature
9 hours and 19 minutes, The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shades editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the Great Beaver, Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be., Nabokovs darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum., Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics
