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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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Main Authors: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
Group Author: Scammell, Michael
Published: Penguin,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2000.
©1964
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Russian
Series: Penguin modern classics
Subjects:
Chess > Fiction
Russian fiction > 20th century > Translations into English
Summary: " 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

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