The Luzhin defense
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The Luzhin defense
Penguin Classics, 2012
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Zashchita Luzhina
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"First published in the United States of America by G.P. Putnam's Sons 1964"--T.p. verso
"This edition published in Penguin Classics 2012"--T.p. verso
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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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