Invitation to a Beheading

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov
• Assisted by: Dimitri Nabokov (Translation), Dmitri Nabokov (Translation), Nabokov Dmitri (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.04.2001
• EAN: 9780141185606
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118560-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Religious, Narrative theme: Interior life, RELIGION / Gnosticism, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Gnosticism