The Luzhin defense

Author(s)

• Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
• Scammell, Michael

Bibliographic Information

The Luzhin defense

Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin, 1994, c1964

• : pbk

Other Title

Защита Лужина

Note

First published: London : G.P. Putnam's, 1964

Afterword copyright dated, 1983

Description and Table of Contents

Description

One of the major novels by Vladimir Nabokov, originally entitled "The Defense". The afterword is written by John Updike. The novel features a chess-playing genius Luzhin who discovers his gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of Grandmaster.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA24148790
• ISBN:
  • 0140187324
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: rus
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 266 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 891.7342
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461