The Defense
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| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publication Date | 2025-01-30 |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780241720486 |
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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 Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt ‘contains and diffuses the greatest warmth’.
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| Weight | 0.146 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 1.2 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm |
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint | Penguin Classics |
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780241720486 |
| Publication Date | 2025-01-30 |
| Publication Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Country of Publication | GB |
| Language | English |
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