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The poem describes images of reflections in a window on a winter night, and the natural winter scene outside. The poem pale fire begins with a metaphor of shade as a bird crashing into the reflection in a window pane, but then flying on into the illusory sky. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. With an introduction by richard rorty the urbane authority that vladimir nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in pale fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of lolita had made him an international literary figure. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 255 pages and is available in paperback format.
As of today we have 104,295,160 ebooks for you to download for free. The novel encodes an alltime controversial subject, a middleaged literature professor who was obsessed with a 12yearold girl and then become sexually involved with her after becoming his stepfather. Shade focuses this canto on attempts that can be made to make sense of death. The first edition of the novel was published in 1951, and was written by vladimir nabokov. Known on campus as the great beaver, kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad and even dangerous.
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