The work under review appears as a rectangular, black-matte box, with, as a title, the words Pale Fire: A Poem in Four Cantos by John Shade⁠[1] engraved in red at the top of the cover, and the name Vladimir Nabokov at the bottom. Opened, the box reveals another cover, with the same title, engraved but […]

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