Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov Madge Gill Tawan Wattuya

Tawan Wattuya

only those able to wield The Vorpal Sword stand a chance of defeating them

"Composed like a twenty-first century flashback to Nikolai Gogol’s 'Diary of a Madman

time and again

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov Madge Gill Tawan WattuyaPale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov ISBN 9780679723424 315 page paperback from Vintage Books *** A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one upmanship, and political intrigueand "one of the great works of art of this century" (Mary McCarthy)from one of the leading writers of the 20th century. In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999 line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary