The Luzhin defense /
" Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, 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 defe...
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Penguin,
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Publisher Address: | London : |
Publication Dates: |
2000. ©1964 |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: |
English Russian |
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Penguin modern classics
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" Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, 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'." --Publisher. |
Item Description: | First published by G. P. Putnam's Sons 1964. Published in Penguin Books 1994. Published in Penguin Classics 2000, reprinted 2016. |
Carrier Form: | ix, 178 pages ; 20 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780141185989 (paperback) : 0141185988 (paperback) |
Index Number: | PG3476 |
CLC: | I712.45 |
Call Number: | I712.45/N117-18 |