“Pale Fire” (1962) is Vladimir Nabokov’s most unusual work in form, consisting of an epigraph, a 999-line poem of the same name, a preface to it, an extensive commentary and an index. The circumstances of the composition of John Shade's brilliant poem in the last weeks of his life are refracted through the fantastic prism of a commentary compiled by the mysterious and lonely admirer of the American poet Charles Kinbote, who fills the world of Pale Fire with his own creative experience, memories and fears. In this edition, the novel is published in Vera Nabokova's translation .