Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

earliest edition we have, 1945 Knopf, 1992 315 pages

Everyman's library — book 67

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.

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Editions we hold

Pale Fire edition · 2022 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9781474620871
Fahles Feuer paperback · 2018 · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · 9783499273902
Pale Fire audiobook · 2015 · Brilliance Audio · 9781501265112
Pale Fire edition · 2012 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141197241
Pale Fire edition · 2012 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141912868
Blady ogien hardcover · 2011 · Muza · 300 pages · 9788374958608
Pale Fire audiobook · 2010 · Brilliance Audio · 9781441872784
Pale Fire audiobook · 2010 · Brilliance Audio · 9781441872791
Pálido fuego hardcover · 2009 · RBA · 318 pages · 9788447364411
Wei an de huo edition · 2008 · Shanghai yi wen chu ban she · 367 pages · 9787532742783
Pálido fuego paperback · 2006 · Anagrama · 312 pages · 9788433960085
Fuoco pallido paperback · 2002 · Adelphi · 9788845917325

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