Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

‘A jack-in-the-box, a Faberge gem, a clockwork toy, a chess problem, an infernal machine, a trap to catch reviewers, a cat-and-mouse game, a do-it-yourself novel … one of the great works of art of [the 20th] century’ Mary McCarthy ‘Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstat...