The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov

The Luzhin Defense

Vladimir Nabokov with Michael Scammell (Translator)

256 pages first pub 1929 (editions) user-added

fiction classics challenging funny slow-paced
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Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin 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 As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates.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 ches...

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