Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov fashion & design he surprised everyone and himself

he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance

and well-written

It seems like a good way to make them all happy

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Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov fashion & design he surprised everyone and himselfThe American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's 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. Nabokov's