Lord Byron, Keats, Shelley, etc. Artist Jean Holabird, who conceived the project, illustrates key details of the poem's pattern and pathos.

Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Having recently read Pale Fire, the novel by Vladimir Nabokov which revolves around this poem by fictional author John Shade, I found this presentation of the poem on index cards enchanting. His early life is marked by tragedy. 40 Pages in Book 1 "Pale Fire," 48 Pages in Book 2 "Pale Fire" Reflections, 80 Index Cards Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. "A gripping, nail-biting psychological thriller ... absolutely riveting."

--Publishers Weekly Great price, nice construction despite the Chinese publishing house (often this spells low quality production, but not here), and, well it's Nabokov and Boyd. The first two lines of John Shade's 999-line poem, "Pale Fire", have become Nabokov's most quoted couplet: The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Poet R.S. And, as a rhyming novella, there’s really no question who wrote it. 2,564 reviews. Artist Jean Holabird, who conceived the project, illustrates key details of the poem's pattern and pathos. Pale Fire is ostensibly the text of a poem of the same name by John Shade, with introduction and commentary provided by Charles Kinbote, as well as a supplementary index.

Instead, it just contains the poem (a small subset of the original book) plus commentary written by someone other than Nabokov. Kinbote's commentary, the bulk of the novel, is an insane comic triumph of would-be romantic self-celebration that cannot quite mute its undertones of desperation. The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) Love Forever: Poems to Open Your Heart and Free Your Emotions Blooming: Poems on Love, Self-Discovery, and Femininity (To the Moon and Back) The Girl in the Rabbit Hole: A Gripping Psychological Thriller (Claire Foley Book 1) Now readers can see the text for themselves, fresh from Shade's hands, before Kinbote commandeered it so shamelessly. Cohen became the spearhead for the project, seeking out Nabokov expert Bryan Boyd, working with project coordinator Anika Heusermann and even traveling to Montreux to spend a day with Dmitri Nabokov, discussing the project and watching endurance car racing on TV.