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Item Details
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THE LUZHIN DEFENSE
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| By: |
Vladimir Nabokov |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0141196939 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780141196930 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2012 |
| Series: |
The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Luzhin is a coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius. 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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". |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Classics |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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