Set in New Wye, it mainly consists of a commentary by a man who thinks he is the exiled king of Zembla, Charles Kinbote.
According to Brian Boyd, one character in this novel influenced the work of another from beyond the grave, and an odd message is really the warning of Aunt Maud, whose ghost inhabits "The Haunted Barn." One character discovers a hidden passage while playing with Oleg, Duke of Rahl, and later escapes through it with the help of Donald O'Donnell. Its index features a game of word golf, and reveals that a central character is really Vseslav Botkin, who commits suicide to escape the assassin Jakob Gradus. Set in New Wye, it mainly consists of a commentary by a man who thinks he is the exiled king of Zembla, Charles Kinbote. FTP, name this work centering on a 999-line poem by John Shade, by Vladimir Nabokov.
According to Brian Boyd, one character in this novel influenced the work of another from beyond the grave, and an odd message is really the warning of Aunt Maud, whose ghost inhabits "The Haunted Barn.
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