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Pale fire by vladimir nabokov, 9780141185262, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between. Read the book on paper it is quite a powerful experience. Pale fire is a poem, 999 lines and divided into four cantos, written by poet john shade. You can also read that same kindle book on a kindle device if you own one. Read anytime, anywhere with the free nook reading app. Part of a major new series of the works of vladimir nabokov, author of lolita and pale fire, in penguin classics. The penguin modern classics kindle edition now sports hypertext, linking together the parts of the poem with the commentary in the back of the book, and the catastrophic formatting issues of the 999line poem itself have been corrected since, which makes the kindle version of pale fire overall the definite edition of the book. People literally cant agree on whether its a masterpiece or intentionally terrible. Its the only website, except amazon, from where you can download books only for kindle.
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