John Shade is a fictional character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire.
Read more about John Shade: Shade and Family, Shade's Poetry, Shade's Commentator
Famous quotes containing the word shade:
“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)