Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics): Vladimir Nabokov [2000] paperback ZCLAS On the night of the

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre

spellbinding mystery

' CRAIG BROWN

Drawing on first-hand crew diaries and journals

frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy

Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics): Vladimir Nabokov [2000] paperback ZCLAS On the night of theThe 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