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The Defence (Twentieth Century Classics) Book

Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.Read More

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  • 0192820281
  • 9780192820280
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • 1 October 1986
  • Oxford Paperbacks
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 200
  • New edition
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