Modern Classics: Invitation to a Beheading
ISBN:
9780141185606
Modern Classics: Invitation to a Beheading
Характеристики
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Автор
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Nabokov, V. |
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Вікова категорія
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Молодежь и взрослые |
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Видавництво
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Penguin Books |
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Жанр
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Класика |
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Кількість сторінок
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192 |
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Мова
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Англійська мова |
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Обкладинка
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М'яка |
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Рік видання
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2001 |
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Серія
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Modern Classics |
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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 sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as 'a violin in a void. The worldling will deem it a trick. Old men will hurriedly turn from it to regional romances and the lives of public figures ... The evil-minded will perceive in little Emmie a sister of little Lolita ... But I know a few readers who will jump up, ruffling their hair'.
