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by Vladimir Nabokov
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- Lyrical
- Melancholic
- Mysterious
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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