Invitation to a Beheading
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
27 June 2001
Summary
Nightmarish, witty, and immaculately conceived, Invitation to a Beheading unsparingly teases out the illogic of tyranny and will establish Nabokov in readers’ minds as a serious and intelligent writer.
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 spe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185606 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185600 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 152g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even ‘God’s own novelist’ (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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