The 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?

All Editions

Paperback, 12th Edition

ISBN13: 9780141185262

PenguinÂ Books, 2000

Hardcover, 7th Edition

ISBN13: 9781857150674

Everymans Library, 1992

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