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Invitation to a Beheading
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-09-19 - Publisher: Vintage

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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C
Invitation to a Beheading
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-01 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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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 sustain
Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Julian W. Connolly
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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In an unnamed dream country, Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. After spend
Bend Sinister
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-04-14 - Publisher: Vintage

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The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled
Severed
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Frances Larson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-06 - Publisher: Granta Books

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Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props