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Title: INVITATION TO A BEHEADING
By: Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0141185600
ISBN 13: 9780141185606
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 April, 2001
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 192
Translated from: Russian
Description: Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
Synopsis: Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as 'a violin in a void. The worldling will deem it a trick. Old men will hurriedly turn from it to regional romances and the lives of public figures ... The evil-minded will perceive in little Emmie a sister of little Lolita ... But I know a few readers who will jump up, ruffling their hair'.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Returns: Returnable
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