Pale Fire
Experimental fiction
Russian fiction
Assassination
Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
Immigrants
American poetry
Kings and rulers
American literature
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Fiction
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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