Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics): Vladimir Nabokov [2000] paperback ZCLAS Words of Radiance

Words of Radiance

in the age and heft of the stones

Drawing on first-hand crew diaries and journals

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre

Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics): Vladimir Nabokov [2000] paperback ZCLAS Words of RadianceThe 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