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  Invitation to a Beheading (Paperback) By (author) Vladimir Nabokov, Translated by Dmitri Nabokov

  

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  Short Description for Invitation to a BeheadingTakes 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.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 26 April 2001
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Classics | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9780141185606 ISBN 10: 0141185600
  • Sales rank: 81,273

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Full description for Invitation to a Beheading

• 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'.