This is the 101st meeting of the book club.

👉 👉 👉 About the book

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should.

Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

👉 👉 👉 Bookclub Fees

It costs $16.70 US dollar / €15.45 Euros per month to run this bookclub on meetup.com. For this reason, there's a €2 donation per meeting. Any money OVER €15.45 collected at a meeting will go towards our Christmas meetup.

Every time I post our next meetup, I will update you on the running total.
Running total of money saved for 2024 Christmas Meeting: €0

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101st Meeting: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

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