Invitation to a Beheading - Penguin Modern Classics
Invitation to a Beheading - Penguin Modern Classics
paperback | English
Published:
26 April, 2001
paperback | English
Published:
26 April, 2001
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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'.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780141185606 |
| ISBN10 | 0141185600 |
| Number Of Pages | 192 |
| Item Weight | 147 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 197 x 11 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
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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.