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Studies in American Fiction, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 1982, pp. 101-105
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PALE FIRE AND SHERLOCK HOLMES
Paul R. Jackson
Temple University
Notes
'Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962), p. 33. Further
references are given in the text.
2Although its content seems unusable for Pale Fire, Kenneth Fearing's "Sherlock
Spends a Day in the Country," The New Yorker (March 11, 1944), p. 32, links Holmes
and snow in a poem Nabokov called "lovely" in a letter to Edmund Wilson. See Simon
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