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Vladimir Nabokov: Invitation to a Beheading: Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback CGIFT Zhu was the peasant rebelWritten 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