The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov

The Defense

Vladimir Nabokov with Michael Scammell (Translator)

192 pages paperback 1929

65 editions

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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 p...

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