An edition of Priglashenie na kaznʹ (1938)

Invitation to a Beheading

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An edition of Priglashenie na kaznʹ (1938)

Invitation to a Beheading

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.8 (4 ratings) ·
  • 32 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."

Publish Date
Publisher
Vintage International
Language
English
Pages
223

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Subjects

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

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Cover of: Invitation to a Beheading
Invitation to a Beheading
2000s, Vintage International
Paperback in English
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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.
1959, Putnam
in English
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
PG3476.N3 P7313 1989

Contributors

Translator
Dmitri Nabokov
Dedicated to
Vera
Cover and Text Design
Yentus & Booher
Cover Photographs
Alison Gootee

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
223

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25447424M
Internet Archive
invitationtobehe0000nabo
ISBN 10
9780679725312
LCCN
89040148
OCLC/WorldCat
19971258

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