The Luzhin Defense Paperback / softback
by Vladimir Nabokov
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin.
Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom.
As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence.
Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Luzhin Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt 'contains and diffuses the greatest warmth'.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:29/06/2000
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- ISBN:9780141185989
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:29/06/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141185989