An edition of Priglashenie na kaznʹ (1938)

Invitation to a beheading

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Invitation to a beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
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An edition of Priglashenie na kaznʹ (1938)

Invitation to a beheading

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.75 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 31 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

A surreal story about a man who has been sentenced to death by beheading for the crime of "gnostical turpitude."

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Penguin Books
Language
English

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Subjects
surreal, metaphysical, Death row inmates, Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)

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Invitation to a Beheading
2000s, Vintage International
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Cover of: Invitation au supplice
Invitation au supplice
March 4, 1980, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Invitation to a Beheading
January 30, 1965, Perigee Trade
in English
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Invitation to a beheading
1963, Penguin Books
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1959, Putnam
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Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960.

Translation of: Priglashenie na kazn'.

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Harmondsworth

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891.7344

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OL19411939M

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