- Immigrants, Fiction, Kings and rulers, Assassination
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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Prestige, contemplative, meticulous and open-ended.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- First published
- 1945
- Pages
- 315
- Publisher
- Gallimard, Bruguera, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- Editions
- 58
- Language
- Chinese, English, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781441872791
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“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the falls azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков; 23 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov's *Lolita* (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked at #4 in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. *Pale Fire* (1962) w
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