Invitation To A Beheading

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

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Price : $19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780141185606
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.207
Publication date : June 2001
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 14mm
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Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Series : Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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Language : English
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Pages : 192
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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.

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.