Hardcover
Published Jan. 1, 1968 by Rowohlt, Reinbek.
Hardcover
Published Jan. 1, 1968 by Rowohlt, Reinbek.
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.