signalnine rated Invitation to a Beheading (Penguin Modern Classics): 5 stars
Vladimir Nabokov: Invitation to a Beheading (Penguin Modern Classics) (2001, Penguin Books Ltd)
Invitation to a Beheading (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
A surreal story about a man who has been sentenced to death by beheading for the crime of "gnostical turpitude."