The Luzhin Defence by Vladimir Nabokov

The Luzhin Defence

Vladimir Nabokov

280 pages first pub 1929 (editions)

fiction classics challenging funny slow-paced
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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 ...

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