books.google.com - 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 by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.From...http://books.google.com/books/about/Pale_Fire.html?id=5q_IhA8UqucC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePale Fire