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Invitation to a Beheading

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Invitation to a Beheading

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Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959
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Book Type: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
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In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell.


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