Invitation to a Beheading Study Guide consists of approx. 46 pages of summaries and analysis on Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov. Browse the literature study guide below:
As the novel begins, Cincinnatus is sentenced to death for an unknown crime. The judge whispers the sentence in his ear, and then Cincinnatus is hauled away to a towering prison atop a mountain where he is incarcerated by the jailer, Rodion. His lawyer is waiting in the prison cell, but Cincinnatus asks him to leave. The prisoner begins writing down his thoughts, disjointedly. A spider hangs from the ceiling, but Cincinnatus is the only prisoner. (
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